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George Eliot Quotes - Page 19

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But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Love, Men, Cities

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Lying, Clouds, Imagination

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.330, 谷月社

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

Mother, Animal, Love Is

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

Anger, Leaving, Tears

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.341

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Pain, Anger, Men

Spanish Gypsy Bk 1

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Beauty, Language, Speak

George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.212

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Memories, Childhood, Sorrow

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.104

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

Loyalty, Echoes, Voice

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.467

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

Life, Odd, Figures

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.233, Xist Publishing

Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.

Forever, Soul, Vision

George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.49

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

Men, Two, Feet

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1416, Delphi Classics

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

Disappointment, May, Vexation

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.127

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

Memories, Nests, Littles

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.28

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Useless Things, Useless, Consumerism

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.243, George Eliot

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

Giving, Friendly, Opinion

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

Strong, Philosophy, Roots

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6781, Delphi Classics

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Reading, Able, Hunger

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6603, Delphi Classics

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Mistake, Men, Genius

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.654, 谷月社

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

Men, Age, Singles

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.166

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

Sympathy, Hurt, Hands

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

Men, Dresses, Taste

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Thinking, Common, Imagine

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

Stranger, Wit

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.313

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Mind, Bows, Gymnasiums

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.30, 谷月社

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

Worry, Trouble, Employed

George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1862-1868”

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