George Eliot Quotes - Page 33

• There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Disappointment, Exaggeration Is

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Voice, Giving

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, Dawson Brothers

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• The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Doubt, Moments

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2958, Delphi Classics

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• How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Feet, Choices

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6040, Delphi Classics

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• All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

  George Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Night

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2740, ShandonPress

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• Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Darkness, Secret, Wish

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.90, 谷月社

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• Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

  George Eliot

  Tone, Unexpected, Persons

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• Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Silence, May

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• There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.10

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• Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Two, Ties

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6046, Delphi Classics

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• The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Skills, Temptation

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• But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

  George Eliot

  Men, Wind, Certain

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.303

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• I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

  George Eliot

  Fighting, Men, Done

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.490

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• It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

  George Eliot

  Love

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.77

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• Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  George Eliot

  Love, Summer, Girl

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.113, 谷月社

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• Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

  George Eliot

  Love, Flower, Blessed

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3798, Delphi Classics

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• We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

  George Eliot

  Love, Mother, Looks

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.177

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Luck, Would Be

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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• The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Eye, Artist

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.73

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• There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.

  George Eliot

  Morning, Blessed, Angel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.133, ShandonPress

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• In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Men, Giving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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• Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Real, Reading

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

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• News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, News, Bees

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.393, Penguin

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