George Eliot Quotes About Fate

• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Taken, Fate

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

• What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

  George Eliot

  Fate, Self, Deception

• Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

  George Eliot

  Fate, Arrows, Breasts

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

• We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

  George Eliot

  Children, Fate, Littles

• Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

  George Eliot

  Fate, Passing Away, Today

• Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

  George Eliot

  Giving Up, Fate, Thinking

  1860 The Mill on the Floss, bk.5, ch.1.

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