George Eliot Quotes - Page 31

• Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Heart, People, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.332, Delphi Classics

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• It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

  George Eliot

  Time, Years, Mindfulness

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  George Eliot

  Time, Men, Ties

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

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• Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

  George Eliot

  Kissing, Oblivion

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.219

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• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Silence, Doe

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

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• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Men, Fault Finders

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Giving, Grease

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• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  George Eliot

  Faith, Errors, Feelings

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.640, Broadview Press

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• It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

  George Eliot

  World, Poverty, Helping

  "Silas Marner".

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• As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Men, Unlucky

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.374

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• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Wedding, Sight

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Public Opinion, Belief

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.31, Modern Library

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• I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Blessing, Thinking

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.400, Broadview Press

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• When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

  George Eliot

  Doors, Experts, Tools

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.22

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• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

  George Eliot

  Men, Decision, Age

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Grief, Baptism

  "Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.

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• Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Deeds, Action, Fetters

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Book 1, Miss Brooke. 1[,1]”, p.52

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• What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Sweet, Heart

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3376, Delphi Classics

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• Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

  George Eliot

  Archer, Perfect, Deer

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.439

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• All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

  George Eliot

  New Experiences, Childhood, Would Be

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1676, ShandonPress

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• It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

  George Eliot

  Color, Scent, Strange

  George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.15

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• What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Air, Satisfaction

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

  George Eliot

  Men, Vegetables, Desire

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.168

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• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

  George Eliot

  Men, Escaping, Docks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.290

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