George Eliot Quotes - Page 2

• Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Success, Sports, New Year

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

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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

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  Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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• Don't judge a book by its cover

  George Eliot

  Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

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• No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

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  Wise, Men, Empty

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71

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• To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Judging

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

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• It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

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  Ignorance, Fighting, Fog

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

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• We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

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  People, Want, Feels

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.202, 谷月社

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• There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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  Sports, Winning, Fearless

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.261

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

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  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Effort, Goes On

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

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  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3734, Delphi Classics

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• Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

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  Ignorance, Giving, Range

  Daniel Deronda II xiii (p. 100)

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• It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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  Ignorance, Common, Hours

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.194, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

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  Forgiveness, Too Much, Judgment

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.704, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Hurt, People, Made

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

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• A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

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  Fool, Idiot, Happens

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.329

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

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  Life, Literature, Compunction

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.132, 谷月社

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

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  Fighting, Winning, Coward

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.27

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  My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

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  Compassion, Joy, Suffering

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 29

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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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  Conceited, Thinking, People

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.382, George Eliot

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• Even success needs its consolations.

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  Needs, Consolation

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.648

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