George Eliot Quotes - Page 13

• Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

  George Eliot

  Cheating, Children, Play

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.90, Wordsworth Editions

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• Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

  George Eliot

  Men, Perception, Mind

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.45, 谷月社

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• A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

  George Eliot

  Mean, Two, Dubious

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• Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Autumn, Air

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Sight, Doors

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Character, Self

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.162, Booklassic

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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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• There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

  George Eliot

  Men, Two, Feet

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1416, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Lying, Reflection

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Cutting, Hands

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1825, Delphi Classics

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• Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, People, Made

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.67, Prestwick House Inc

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

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Wisdom, Laughter

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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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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• A good solid bit of work lasts.

  George Eliot

  Work, Lasts, Bits

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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• That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

  George Eliot

  Blessed, Sky, Golden

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• The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

  George Eliot

  Our Actions, Action, Communicate

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.204, Penguin

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• Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

  George Eliot

  Ocean, Men, Air

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.440, 谷月社

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• To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

  George Eliot

  Sorrow, Despair, Young

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

  George Eliot

  Tolerance, Lasts, Intolerance

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.471, Cambridge University Press

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• I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Bows, Gymnasiums

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.30, 谷月社

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