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George Eliot Quotes - Page 22

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Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the

Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

Ocean, Men, Air

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.440, 谷月社

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

Rain, Men, Wind

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3846, Delphi Classics

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Kings, Men, Royalty

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4074, Delphi Classics

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Culture, Obstacles, Opinion

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5933, Delphi Classics

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

Squirrels, Air, Delicacy

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.33

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Dog, Men, Differences

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.192, Wordsworth Editions

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Heart, Men, Idols

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

Fall, Love Is, Feet

George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.299, 谷月社

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.

Animal, Ideas, Self

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

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Thinking, Smell, Rose

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1242, Wordsworth Editions

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Soul, Opinion, Contradictory

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

Horse, Believe, Camels

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

Believe, Leisure, Vacuums

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

Grief, Love Is, Effort

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Vanity, Noses, Minutiae

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

Passion, Men, Vanity

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.129

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

Causes, Vanishing, Fit

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.182, Penguin

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Heart, Done, Bits

George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.293, Oxford University Press

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

Spiritual, Mother, Brother

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Past, Confession, Form

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

Bitter

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.296

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Light, Looks, Thrill

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

People, Enough, Born

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.447

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

Care, Precious Things, Increase

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.549

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Sweet, Ties, Lasts

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6886, Delphi Classics

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