I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot Failure
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. George Eliot Failure
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. George Eliot Failure
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot Travel
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot Travel
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot Jealousy
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. George Eliot Faith
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot Sad
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot Gardening
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. George Eliot Positive
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. George Eliot Science