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George Eliot Quotes - Page 27

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They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

Women, Grace, Suffering

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.226

There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

Men, Race, Imagination

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Jealousy, Pain, Eye

George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.120

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

Christian, Attitude, Lying

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

Memories, Self, Doe

George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.64, 谷月社

The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

Men, Tails, Ems

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

Reading, Mind, Done

George Eliot (1881). “George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals”

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

Sympathy, Expression, Certain

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

Eras, Youth, Something Better

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1994, Delphi Classics

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

Selfish, Artist, Giving

George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Thinking, Long, People

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1193, Wordsworth Editions

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

Hardship, Earth, Want

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.331, George Eliot

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Long, Secret, Suffering

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.595, George Eliot

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

Heart, People, Evil

George Eliot (2006). “Everyone and everything in George Eliot”, M E Sharpe Inc

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Light, Metaphor, Graves

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.92, Booklassic

I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?

Spring, Eye, Would Be

George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.71

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

Middlemarch, Seems, Ifs

George Eliot (1890). “Adam Bede: Scenes of Clerical Life”

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

Mother, Morning, Memories

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

Gossip, People, Mind

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Taste, Firsts, Unbearable

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.255, Wordsworth Editions

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

Portraits, Satan, Made

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1550, Delphi Classics

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.

Thinking, Simple, People

George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.23, Courier Corporation

Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.

Sweet, Memories, Eye

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2724, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

Religious, Heaven, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

Sex, Inferiority, Facts

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.353

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