George Eliot Quotes About Opportunity
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Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
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What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
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What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
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