George Eliot Quotes About Hardship

• She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

  George Eliot

  Hardship, Earth, Want

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.331, George Eliot

• The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

  George Eliot

  Taste, Firsts, Unbearable

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.255, Wordsworth Editions

• Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.

  George Eliot

  Love, Memories, Blessing

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

• I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Hardship, Pretending

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

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