More from George Eliot
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Middlemarch (1871)In contextBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.- Often credited to T. S. Eliot
More about courage
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
