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George Eliot Quotes - Page 2

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Those who trust us educate us.

Education, Fathers Day, Teaching

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

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

Light, Darkness, Curtains

George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.48

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Lying, Responsibility, Tolerance

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1282, Wordsworth Editions

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

Two, Way, Used

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.77

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

"The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

Ignorance, Fighting, Fog

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Wise, Men, Empty

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Travel, Integrity, Journey

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.765, Booklassic

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Men, Hands, Stones

George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.153, 谷月社

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

Men

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.218

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Country, Self, Ability

'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 3, ch. 24

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Hope, Sadness, Learning

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.316, Xist Publishing

Even success needs its consolations.

Needs, Consolation

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.648

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Keys, Mystery, Wonder

George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume I EasyRead Edition”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

Echoes, Soul, Immortality

George Eliot (1871). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.287

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Compassion, Joy, Suffering

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

People, Want, Feels

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.202, 谷月社

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 29

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

Thinking, Dislike

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.345, George Eliot

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

World, Fingers, Puzzling

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.307, George Eliot

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

Littles, Appearance

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.253

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