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George Eliot Quotes - Page 32

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Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

Best Friend, Determination, Home

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

Night, Awful, Mystery

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4217, Delphi Classics

Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar.

Strong, Stars, Flower

George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

Art, Prayer, Father

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

Punishment, Hands, Wave

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

People, Crow, Suspicion

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Believe, Men, Brave

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.933, Delphi Classics

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Mistake, Giving, Alive

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.483, Penguin

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Husband, Women, Home

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Hiking, Hatred, Ladders

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.179, Open Road Media

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Average, Feelings, Depth

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1222, ShandonPress

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Maggie, Vicissitudes, Young

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

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Perfect, Forbidden Love, Relation

George Eliot (1861). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, p.213

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

Nature, Eye, Past

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.312

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

Kissing, Forgotten, Empty

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Hate

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

Lying, Passion, Men

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.244, London

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

Heart, Forbidden Love, Needs

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

Spring, Passion, First Love

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.184

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

Thinking, Empathy, Tables

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.94, 谷月社

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Thinking, Looks, Looking Good

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Children, Memories, Kindness

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

Stories, May, Reputation

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6581, Delphi Classics

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

Sweet, Knowledge, Novelty

"The Mill on the Floss". Easyread Comfort Edition,

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

Women, Sorrow, Would Be

'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 2

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