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Quote by George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot

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God
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George Eliot
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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot

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Patronize, Patronizing
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George Eliot
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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Nature
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George Eliot
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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. – Conor Oberst

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. – William Feather

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Happiness

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Happiness

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. – Nicki Minaj

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There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

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The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. – Samuel Smiles

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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. – Isaac Rosenberg

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. – Joseph Campbell

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