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George Eliot Quotes - Page 38

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...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

Running, Garden, Thinking

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Character, Needs, Theory

George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.98, 谷月社

O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

Stars, Persistence, Night

"Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Coarse, Subtle, Impression

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

Heaven, World

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6036, Delphi Classics

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

Son, Two, Hundred

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.28

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Triumph, Human Nature, Creeds

George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.64, 谷月社

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Jesus, Prayer, Pain

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Girl, Men, Imagination

"Daniel Deronda".

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Relationship, Happiness, Freedom

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.393, 谷月社

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Wish, Literature, Exclusion

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.123, Oxford Paperbacks

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Ignorance, Acquaintance, Persons

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.93, 谷月社

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

God, Memories, Son

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.468, 谷月社

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Night, Voice, Silence

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

Achieve, Should, Resolve

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.762, Xist Publishing

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

Past, Years, Desire

George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Inspirational, Ignorance, Imagination

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Saint, Sage, Poet

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6043, Delphi Classics

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

Mean, Fine Words, Action

George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

Girl, Sweet, Land

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Beautiful, Fall, Ignorance

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.360, 谷月社

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

Prayer, Powerful, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.318, 谷月社

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

Drama, Character, Creating

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.210, Booklassic

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

Inspirational, Children, Kids

George Eliot (2014). “Silas Marner”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

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