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George Eliot Quotes - Page 26

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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Witty, Pride, Vanity

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.581, Xist Publishing

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

Blow, Wind, Bird

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.509, George Eliot

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

Spiritual, Men, Crowns

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.38

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Winning, Victory, Heroism

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1113, Wordsworth Editions

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Oddities, Sorrow, Faults

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6393, Delphi Classics

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Perseverance, Fear, Failure

George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

Tired, People, Way

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.243, Penguin

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Women, History, Historical

The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 3 (1860)

If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

Trouble, Worst, Ifs

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1952, Delphi Classics

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

New Beginnings, Men, Finding Yourself

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.91, Penguin

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

Determination, Rocks, Scales

"Complete Works of George Eliot".

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Struggle, Perception, Adjusting

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Feelings, Duty, Knows

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.391, Penguin

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

Ambition, Long, Miracle

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Writing, Poet, Pardon

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.108, Booklassic

The bow always strung ... will not do.

Stress, Bows, Intensity

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

Writing, Thinking, Interesting

George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Soul, Feelings, Mutual Love

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.830, ShandonPress

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

Spring, Grief, Cutting

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Life, Littles, Facts

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.150, Oxford Paperbacks

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

Courage, Men, Thinking

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.329, Wordsworth Editions

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

Death, Perfect, Feels

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.424

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

Selfishness, Littles, Poor

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.176

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