George Eliot Quotes - Page 8

• Man cannot choose his duties.

  George Eliot

  Men, Duty

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.157

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• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

  George Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

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  Children, Childhood, Earth

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

  George Eliot

  Book, Writing, Giving

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

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• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Too Much, Injury

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• "Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

  George Eliot

  Home, Reputation, Ruined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) epilogue

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• Correct English is the slang of prigs.

  George Eliot

  Language, Slang

  Middlemarch bk. 1, ch. 11 (1871 - 1872)

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• Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

  George Eliot

  Life, Saws, Gravity

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.101

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• Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

  George Eliot

  Life, Exercise, Animal

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• You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

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  Men, World, Suits

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

  George Eliot

  Men, Infatuation, Recklessness

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.716, Wordsworth Editions

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• In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

  George Eliot

  Travel, Shapes, Fool

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

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• Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Names, Goal

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.110, George Eliot

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• Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

  George Eliot

  Glasses, Magnifying, Magnifying Glass

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.56, Penguin

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• It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

  George Eliot

  Pockets, Use, Holes

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• Steady work turns genius to a loom.

  George Eliot

  Genius, Turns, Steady

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3694, ShandonPress

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• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

  George Eliot

  Dirty, Gossip, Rumor

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13

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• There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

  George Eliot

  Men, Reverence

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1911, ShandonPress

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• It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

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  Friends, Utterance, My Friends

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6477, Delphi Classics

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• It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Book, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• A good horse makes short miles.

  George Eliot

  Horse, Equestrian, Miles

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• Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Yesterday, Forever

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• Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Age, Ugly

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.89, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

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  Wall, Truth, Paradise

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.105

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