Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose ___ of their objects than love.
What’s missing ___?
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing ___, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
What’s missing ___?
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___ is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
What’s missing ___?
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→ Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
→ Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
→ There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
→ Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
One of these may be attributed to George Eliot. Which one?
→ Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
→ There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
→ The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
→ Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
→ I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
→ All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
→ There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other—by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
Can you identify the right quote belonging to George Eliot?
→ The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
→ Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
→ People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
→ He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Guess which of these quotes is attributed to George Eliot.
→ It is the epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
→ The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
→ 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.