George Eliot Quotes - Page 36

• Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

  George Eliot

  May, Majestic, Emotion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.412, Penguin

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• What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

  George Eliot

  Produce, Aim, Wanted

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.417

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• ... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Imperfection, Inward

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

  George Eliot

  Destiny, Feelings, Firsts

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.890, ShandonPress

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• Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Growth

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6426, Delphi Classics

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• Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Rewards, Tongue

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

  George Eliot

  New Year, Witty, Blessing

  George Eliot (1898). “Works: George Eliot's life”

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• ... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

  George Eliot

  Faults, Weight, Helping

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• If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Lessons, Fancy

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• The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

  George Eliot

  Silly, Writing, People

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• Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Brain, Want

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• ... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Sight, London

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.297, 谷月社

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• People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

  George Eliot

  Writing, People, Thanks

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861”

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• What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

  George Eliot

  Despair, Trying, Sap

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.407, 谷月社

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• ... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

  George Eliot

  Book, Suffering, Doubt

  George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

  George Eliot

  And Love, Enough, Select

  George Eliot (2006). “Adam Bede Volume Ii EasyRead Large Editi”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Real, Ems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.993, Delphi Classics

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• In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

  George Eliot

  Rome, World, Wanted

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.183, 谷月社

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• ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Pride, Men

  Middlemarch Ch. 21

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• When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Mind, Religion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.218, Penguin

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• Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

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  Prayer, Reflection, Roots

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

  George Eliot

  Commitment, Waiting, Quality

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• What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, People, Mad

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.643, Wordsworth Editions

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• Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

  George Eliot

  Money, Errors, Differences

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.512, 谷月社

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• I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

  George Eliot

  People, Way, Charity

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.417, Wordsworth Editions

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