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George Eliot Quotes - Page 34

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Wings, Our Words, Literature

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.437

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Truth, Flavour, Rough

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Love, Vanity, Literature

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.107, Open Road Media

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Philosophy, Mean, Experience

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.683, Oxford Paperbacks

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

Love Is, Air, Blue

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4066, Delphi Classics

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

Summer, Winter, Wind

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4101, Delphi Classics

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Atheism, Firsts, Immortality

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

Men, Thinking, Atheism

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Atheism, Moral, Judgment

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

Atheism, Impossible, New Testament

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

Strong, Thinking, Soul

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

Religious, Powerful, Growth

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4704, ShandonPress

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Leadership, Command

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

Music, Ears, Pipe

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.142, Wordsworth Editions

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

Music, Grief, Men

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

Nature, Sunshine, Labor

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

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Trust, Men, Deeds

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.211

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

Water, Cheerful, Months

George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.230

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

Women, Elements, Virtue

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.403

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Women, Thinking, Winning

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

Spring, Giving, Justice

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.240, ShandonPress

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

Church, Watches, Band

George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

Spring, Inspiration, Growing

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.574, George Eliot

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Men, Weakness, Sacred

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.282

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Disappointment, Breakfast, Men And Women

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.291

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