George Eliot Quotes About Worship

• I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

  George Eliot

  Hypocrisy, Atheism, World

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

• Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

  George Eliot

  Children, Hero, Believe

• The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Love Is, Feet

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.299, 谷月社

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