George Eliot Quotes - Page 30

• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Giving, Grease

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• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  George Eliot

  Faith, Errors, Feelings

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.640, Broadview Press

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

  George Eliot

  World, Poverty, Helping

  "Silas Marner".

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• As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Men, Unlucky

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.374

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• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Wedding, Sight

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Public Opinion, Belief

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.31, Modern Library

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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.

  George Eliot

  Honesty, Law, People

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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.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Needs

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

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• Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Boys, Opportunity

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.205, 谷月社

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• Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

  George Eliot

  Compassion, Years, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.544, George Eliot

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

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

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• That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Husband, Wife

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.113, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

  George Eliot

  Blessing, Thinking, Bored

  George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.444, Booklassic

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• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

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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.

  George Eliot

  Love, Strong, Conceited

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

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• There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Dark, Clouds, Rivers

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

  George Eliot

  Self, Vision, Height

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.165, Booklassic

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

  George Eliot

  God, Men, Hands

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.254

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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 the universe.

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  Light, Woven, Unraveling

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

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  Love You, Pride, Thinking

  George Eliot “Middlemarch, Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

  George Eliot

  Self Confidence, People, Addresses

  George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Determination, Home

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• Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

  George Eliot

  Allowance, Conjecture, Knows

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.785, Booklassic

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• You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

  George Eliot

  Work, Love You, Play

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.608, Booklassic

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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 opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Cheerful

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

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