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George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot

British novelist ['Middlemarch']

Nationality: British

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Type: Writer

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Birth: 1819-1880

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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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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.

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.

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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softnes

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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opini

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

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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, wearing it at best with a r

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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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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.

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

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Those who trust us educate us.

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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

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Breed is stronger than pasture.

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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called t

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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, 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

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within

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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

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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-wro

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Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that yo

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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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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.

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

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

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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

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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 add

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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

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

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