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George Eliot Quotes - Page 40

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Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

Hope, Growth, Vigorous

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4195, Delphi Classics

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

Life, Strong, Love Is

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.459

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

Children, Hero, Believe

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Fear, Acceptance, Self

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.32

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

Religious, Lying, Religion

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.429

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

Patience, Philosophy, Wrath

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.311, Booklassic

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Caring, Men, Feelings

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1625, Delphi Classics

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Judging, Judgement

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Christmas, Fashion, Hair

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.179, George Eliot

Go forward with joyful confidence.

Anticipation, Joyful

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Opportunity, Men, Use

George Eliot (2016). “The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton”, p.56, George Eliot

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Fear, Eye, People

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

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

Sky, Dew, Earth

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.315

Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.

Believe, Storm, Half

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

Giving, Good Woman, Merit

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.584, Booklassic

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

Gratitude, Escaping, Matter

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

Real, Grief, Thinking

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.145

It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.

Memories, Powerful, Passion

Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.

Love, Memories, Blessing

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

Math, Men, Fire

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

Running, Tongue, Clock

George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.458

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.

Strong, Doubt, Horizon

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

Hair, Fairs, Pitiful

George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Works of George Eliot”, p.3003, e-artnow

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

Violin, Kind, Fame

George Eliot (1885). “Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted Veil”

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Men, Mad, Monsters

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.135

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