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George Eliot Quotes - Page 3

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It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

Successful, Goal, Too Late

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Inspirational, Flower, Woods

George Eliot (1901). “The Personal Edition of George Eliot's Works”

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

People, Bees, Impatient

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

Friendship, Trust, Character

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Music, Effort, Goes On

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

Success, Winning, Exertion

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Sports, Winning, Fearless

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.261

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Appreciation, Time, Book

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Forgiveness, Too Much, Judgment

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.704, Wordsworth Editions

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Happiness, Years, How To Be Happy

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Music, Thinking, Ideas

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

Strong, Joy, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

Don't judge a book by its cover

Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

Noble, Vengeance, Scorn

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.249

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Ignorance, May, Pills

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.29

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

Girl, Believe, Weather

George Eliot (1863). “Romola: In Two Volumes”, p.76

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

Hate, Hatred, Form

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

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Life, Literature, Compunction

George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.132, 谷月社

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Sides, Disposition, Patronizing

George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.269, Oxford University Press

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Time, Opportunity, Men

George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.45

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Limits, Wells

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.906, Booklassic

After all, the true seeing is within.

Middlemarch, Seeing

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Happiness, Misery, Worst

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

Our Thoughts

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.227

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

Phrases, Serious, Belief

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.233

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