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George Eliot: A supreme love,...

George Eliot: A supreme love,...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the...

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George Eliot: Only those who...

George Eliot: Only those who...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene...

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George Eliot: An egotist is...

George Eliot: An egotist is...

An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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George Eliot: There is only...

George Eliot: There is only...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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Thomas Carlyle: They raise their...

Thomas Carlyle: They raise their...

They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and...

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Thomas Carlyle: The purpose of...

Thomas Carlyle: The purpose of...

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: The first sin...

Thomas Carlyle: The first sin...

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: What an enormous...

Thomas Carlyle: What an enormous...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when...

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Henry David Thoreau: Nature abhors a...

Henry David Thoreau: Nature abhors a...

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be...

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Henry David Thoreau: If words were...

Henry David Thoreau: If words were...

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad...

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Henry David Thoreau: What fire could...

Henry David Thoreau: What fire could...

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

Source: In Quote Disk...

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Henry David Thoreau: A man sits...

Henry David Thoreau: A man sits...

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Henry David Thoreau: The bluebird carries...

Henry David Thoreau: The bluebird carries...

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

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Otto von Bismarck: The great questions...

Otto von Bismarck: The great questions...

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions. . . but by iron and...

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Stanley Baldwin: Then comes Winston...

Stanley Baldwin: Then comes Winston...

Then comes Winston with his hundred-horse-power mind and what can I do?

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Thomas Carlyle: No sooner does...

Thomas Carlyle: No sooner does...

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes...

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Thomas Carlyle: The depth of...

Thomas Carlyle: The depth of...

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Ability without honor...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Ability without honor...

Ability without honor is useless.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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