George Eliot Quotes - Page 20

• But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Cities

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

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• Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.330, 谷月社

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• Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

  George Eliot

  Men, Hands, Breathing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2733, Delphi Classics

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• For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Years, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.196, Penguin

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• I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

  George Eliot

  Knack, Anticipation, Estates

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.550, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

  George Eliot

  Work, Blessing, Sake

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.405

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• Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Romola: Top Novelist Focus".

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• It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Thinking, Long

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

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• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Distance, Perspective

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

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• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Art, Distance

  George Eliot (1901). “Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda”

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• Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Truth, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.133, George Eliot

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• He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

  George Eliot

  People, Anxiety, Feelings

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

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• The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

  George Eliot

  Imagination, Doubt, Fuel

  George Eliot “Theophrastus Such”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Teach love, for that is what you are.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Teach

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• When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

  George Eliot

  Children, Niece, Passion

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• We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

  George Eliot

  Wrongdoing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.533, Penguin

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• Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Book, Half

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.155

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• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Music, World, Invisible

  George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

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• If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

  George Eliot

  Clothes, Everyday, Use

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Life, Real, Too Late

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

  George Eliot

  World, Demand, Fine

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2858, Delphi Classics

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• To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

  George Eliot

  Men, Names, Virtue

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.230, Hayes Barton Press

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• But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Block, Men, Personality

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Sea, Sailor

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.436, Collector's Library

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• Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

  George Eliot

  Play, Needs, Inward

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

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