George Eliot Quotes - Page 4

• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  George Eliot

  Life, Motivation, Literature

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.658, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Trouble's made us kin.

  George Eliot

  Trouble, Made

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.404

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• there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

  George Eliot

  Two, Way, Used

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.77

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• Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Make Believe

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2794, Delphi Classics

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• The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Misery, Worst

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• I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

  George Eliot

  Cat, Wonder, Dairy

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• When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

  George Eliot

  Age, Reason, Goodness

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.607, ShandonPress

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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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• Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

  George Eliot

  Limits, Wells

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.906, Booklassic

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• Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Fellow Man

  George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Brave, Grace

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• There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

  George Eliot

  Phrases, Serious, Belief

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.233

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• The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

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

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Judging

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

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• I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

  George Eliot

  Flower, Thinking, Knows

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.90, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

  George Eliot

  Sometimes, Nonsense, Rage

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.203

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Ideas

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• One can say everything best over a meal.

  George Eliot

  Food, Meals

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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• If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Doe

  Letter, 5 July 1859

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• In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Half, Losing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.203, Penguin

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• We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Reality, Might

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Fortune, Cheerfulness

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.233, 谷月社

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• Conscience is harder than our enemies,
  Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

  George Eliot

  Enemy, Harder, Niceties

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.61

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