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George Eliot Quotes - Page 12

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Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Discipline, Receiving, Genius

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

Sorrow, Despair, Young

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

Joy is the best of wine.

Wine, Joy

George Eliot (1861). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, p.80

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. 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.

Fall, Autumn, Air

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

Thinking, Fortune, Cheerfulness

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

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Reading, Brain, Proof

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

Law, Bows, Willpower

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1907, ShandonPress

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

Our Actions, Action, Communicate

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.204, Penguin

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Tolerance, Lasts, Intolerance

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.471, Cambridge University Press

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Strong, Circumstances, Remains

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.764, Wordsworth Editions

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Happiness, Self, Preparation

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.656, Open Road Media

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

Two Sides, Well Known, Wells

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.561, Broadview Press

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Truth, May, Knowledge Is Power

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2985, Delphi Classics

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

Messengers, Messages

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.432

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

Silence, Expressive

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Positive Thinking, Thinking, Might

Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 14 (1871 - 1872)

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

Writing, Genius

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

Choices, Argument, Indulgence

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.59

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

Eye, Resolve, Betray

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.112

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Fool, Idiot, Happens

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.329

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Wine, Vinegar, Sun

George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.238

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

Disappointment, Suffering, Faithfulness

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

Believe, Keys, Race

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

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.

Life, Clouds, Imagination

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

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Love, Two, Long

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