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George Eliot Quotes - Page 21

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Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Fear, Stronger, Probability

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.450, Penguin

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

Feet, Light, Soldier

"Scenes of Clerical Life".

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Integrity, Mind, Elements

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

Love, Character, Men

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.164, Xist Publishing

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

Wise, Lying, Reflection

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

Hero, Circles, Hell

George Eliot (2000). “Felix Holt, The Radical”, p.433, Broadview Press

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Husband, Men, Order

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.540, Penguin

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

Life, Jumping, Sea

George Eliot (2000). “Felix Holt, The Radical”, p.289, Broadview Press

There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.

Mistake, Forever, Secret

George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.434, 谷月社

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

Believe, Men, Fabric

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.

Revenge, Fall, Giving

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.294, George Eliot

It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

Women, Flower, Singing

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.190

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

Women, Accepting, Made

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.167

It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

Women, Thinking, Hot And Cold

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.119, George Eliot

I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.

Work, Hate, Pride

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

Work, Men, Bridges

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.

Work, Men, Squares

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.60

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

Spring, Mind, Growth

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.80

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.

Men, Animal, Self

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6068, Delphi Classics

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

Sympathy, Heart, Shelter

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.235

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

Omission, Sublime, Poet

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

Patterns, Conscience

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6056, Delphi Classics

When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

Taken, Cutting, Hands

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1825, Delphi Classics

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

Running, Air, Breathing

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Savages, Levels, Emotion

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2593, Delphi Classics

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