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George Eliot Quotes - Page 16

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Inspirational, Sweet, Men

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.258, ShandonPress

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

Friendship, Birthday, Memories

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.678

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Heart, Sorrow, Trouble

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

Salt, Folks

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.61

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Neutrality, Saws, Merit

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.376, Xist Publishing

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

Beauty, Lovely, Lovely Woman

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Foolish, Reasoning, Seems

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5502, Delphi Classics

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Weakness, Common, Mercy

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Love, Heart, Needs

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

A good solid bit of work lasts.

Work, Lasts, Bits

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

Common Sense, Water, Pumps

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.345, George Eliot

We cannot reform our forefathers.

Reform, Forefathers

George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.453

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Luck, Chance, Strings

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6293, Delphi Classics

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

Men, Life And Death, Likes

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.249, Broadview Press

Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

Baby, Sleep, Thinking

In every parting there is an image of death.

Literature, Parting

'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Amos Barton' ch. 10

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

Hate, People, Dear

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2860, Delphi Classics

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

Blessed, Sky, Golden

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

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

Drama, Thinking, Foam

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6533, Delphi Classics

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Love, Evil, Effort

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Girl, People, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.225, 谷月社

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Sarcastic, Destiny, Hands

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

Father, Son, Giving

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.139, Booklassic

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

Book, Opinion, Delivering

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.398

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

Writing, Errors, Furniture

George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877”

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