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George Eliot Quotes - Page 20

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Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather

Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

Men, Hands, Breathing

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2733, Delphi Classics

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

Moving, Years, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.196, Penguin

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

Knack, Anticipation, Estates

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.550, Oxford Paperbacks

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

Work, Blessing, Sake

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.405

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Mother, Father, Men

"Romola: Top Novelist Focus".

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

Opportunity, Thinking, Long

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Beautiful, Distance, Perspective

George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

Beautiful, Art, Distance

George Eliot (1901). “Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda”

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

Beautiful, Truth, Giving

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.133, George Eliot

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

People, Anxiety, Feelings

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Imagination, Doubt, Fuel

George Eliot “Theophrastus Such”, Jazzybee Verlag

Teach love, for that is what you are.

Inspirational, Teach

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

Children, Niece, Passion

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Wrongdoing

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.533, Penguin

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

Wise, Book, Half

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.155

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

Music, World, Invisible

George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

Clothes, Everyday, Use

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

Life, Real, Too Late

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

World, Demand, Fine

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2858, Delphi Classics

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Men, Names, Virtue

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.230, Hayes Barton Press

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Block, Men, Personality

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

Stars, Sea, Sailor

George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.436, Collector's Library

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

Play, Needs, Inward

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

Lying, Mistake, Self

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Inspirational, Desire, Conquer

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.123, George Eliot

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