"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness." ― George Eliot Topic(s): Nature Tags: private, quarrels More From George Eliot "The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions." "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." "If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence." More In Nature "The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."― Quintilian "The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."― Aristotle "A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."― Paul Getty