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George Eliot Quotes - Page 25

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But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Wise, Mistake, Source

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Ignorance

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Love, Names, Weakness

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.91

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Love, Fall, Kissing

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.215, Open Road Media

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Love, Men, Mutual

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.545, Penguin

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Love, Life, Giving

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Evil, Wells

George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.309, 谷月社

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

Journey, Thinking, Years

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.320, Cambridge University Press

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

Friendship, Thank You, Gratitude

'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 4, ch. 32

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

Pride, Soul, Body

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1720, ShandonPress

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Punishment, Yoke

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3184, Delphi Classics

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Music, Middlemarch, Interrupted

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Art, Sacred, Pure

George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Edition”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Family, Children, Littles

George Eliot (2016). “Romola”, p.14, George Eliot

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

Weather, Impossible, Cold

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.23, 谷月社

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Home, Hypocrisy, Abuse

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.65, Xist Publishing

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

Animal, Feet, Pet

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

People, Bravery, Might

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Blood, Nerves, Subtle

George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil: Top Novelist Focus”, p.28, 谷月社

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

Time, Memories, Past

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

Hands, Soul, Feelings

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Strong, Argument, Command

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

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

Littles, Modern, States

George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Order, Play, Quality

George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

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