George Eliot Quotes - Page 15

• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Sweet, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.258, ShandonPress

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• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

  George Eliot

  Progress, Literature, Heat

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.186, George Eliot

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• The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Failure, Hug

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• There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

  George Eliot

  Boots, Faults, Blame

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Fearless, Danger

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Stupidity, Pigeons

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.265, Courier Corporation

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• If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

  George Eliot

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.292

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• Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

  George Eliot

  Shoes, Boots, Trouble

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

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• There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

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  Passion, Fire, Fuel

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.191

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• The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

  George Eliot

  Patience, Passion, Fire

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.67

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• We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

  George Eliot

  Waiting, Providence

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.80

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• The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

  George Eliot

  Hero, Years, Land

  Daniel Deronda bk. 6, ch. 42 (1876)

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• Better a false belief than no belief at all.

  George Eliot

  Belief

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.819, George Eliot

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• As leopard feels at home with leopard.

  George Eliot

  Home, Leopards, Feels

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• Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Sorrow, Ears

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

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• You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

  George Eliot

  Running, Thinking, Entitlement

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.72

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• If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

  George Eliot

  Men, Ideas, Ifs

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4079, ShandonPress

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• A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

  George Eliot

  Men, Life And Death, Likes

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.249, Broadview Press

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• Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

  George Eliot

  Baby, Sleep, Thinking

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• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Conviction, Social

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.565

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• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Atheism, Form

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

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• What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Feet, Bachelors

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.409, Wordsworth Editions

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

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  Heart, Sadness, Ties

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

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• Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Beautiful Women, Temptation

  "Middlemarch".

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• Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Good Life, Affection

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

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