George Eliot Quotes - Page 3

• All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Outlets

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.180

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• Better a false belief than no belief at all.

  George Eliot

  Belief

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.819, George Eliot

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• College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

  George Eliot

  Education, College, People

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.143, London

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• The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Responsibility, Tolerance

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1282, Wordsworth Editions

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• Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

  George Eliot

  People, Bees, Impatient

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• To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Knowing, Language

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• Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

  George Eliot

  People, Blameless

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.110, Xist Publishing

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• He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

  George Eliot

  People, Anxiety, Feelings

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

  George Eliot

  Believe, World, Belief

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.139

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• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Simple, Language Words

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• It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Flower, Woods

  George Eliot (1901). “The Personal Edition of George Eliot's Works”

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• One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Years, How To Be Happy

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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• After all, the true seeing is within.

  George Eliot

  Middlemarch, Seeing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

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• Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Travel, Adventure

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• Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

  George Eliot

  Silence, Expressive

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• Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Pride, Helping

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

  George Eliot

  Success, Winning, Exertion

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• I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

  George Eliot

  Men

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.218

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• Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

  George Eliot

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

  George Eliot

  Life, Games, Play

  "Felix Holt, The Radical".

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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.

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Time, Book

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

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• The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Night, Light

  "Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines, Philosophers, Statesmen and Poets". Book by S. Pollock Linn, 1881.

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

  George Eliot

  Teacher, Responsibility, Power

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.502, 谷月社

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• Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

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  Echoes, Soul, Immortality

  George Eliot (1871). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.287

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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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  Friendship, Agreement, Delight

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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