George Eliot Quotes

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When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
George Eliot
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
George Eliot
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
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.
George Eliot
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
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To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
George Eliot
We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
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
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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.
George Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
George Eliot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.
George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot