George Eliot Quotes - Page 41

• You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Eye, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Dew, Earth

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.315

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• Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Storm, Half

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

  George Eliot

  Giving, Good Woman, Merit

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.584, Booklassic

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• When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

  George Eliot

  Gratitude, Escaping, Matter

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

  George Eliot

  Real, Grief, Thinking

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.145

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• It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Powerful, Passion

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• Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.

  George Eliot

  Love, Memories, Blessing

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

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  Math, Men, Fire

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

  George Eliot

  Running, Tongue, Clock

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.458

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• It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Doubt, Horizon

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

  George Eliot

  Hair, Fairs, Pitiful

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Works of George Eliot”, p.3003, e-artnow

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• Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

  George Eliot

  Violin, Kind, Fame

  George Eliot (1885). “Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted Veil”

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• Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

  George Eliot

  Men, Mad, Monsters

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.135

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