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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.


TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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GEORGE ELIOT No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
GEORGE ELIOT What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT It is never too late to be what you might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T.S. ELIOT And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...
GEORGE ELIOT I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husband...
GEORGE ELIOT I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do bet...
GEORGE ELIOT Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
GEORGE ELIOT Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
GEORGE ELIOT Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf...
GEORGE ELIOT Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in go...
GEORGE ELIOT Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, brin...
GEORGE ELIOT If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass gr...
GEORGE ELIOT It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by...
GEORGE ELIOT Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
ELIOT PORTER I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
GEORGE ELIOT With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outwor...
GEORGE ELIOT Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls...
GEORGE ELIOT It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads ...
GEORGE ELIOT Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in...
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
GEORGE ELIOT Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
GEORGE ELIOT The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT