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George Eliot Quotes - Page 5

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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Ignorance, Literature, Hours

George Eliot (2011). “Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)”, p.575, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

Man cannot choose his duties.

Men, Duty

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.157

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Life, Motivation, Literature

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.658, Oxford Paperbacks

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

Sky, Brave, Grace

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

Men, Order, Littles

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.228, Booklassic

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

Life, Heart, Men

George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

Stars, Night, Light

"Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines, Philosophers, Statesmen and Poets". Book by S. Pollock Linn, 1881.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

Love, Easy, Difficult

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Love, Life, Relationship

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

Thinking, Bored, Bores

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Art, Men, Doe

Letter, 5 July 1859

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

Men, Fishing, Quality

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.364, Wordsworth Editions

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage, Sympathy, Relation

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

Self, Religion, All Things

No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

Heartbreak, Betrayal, Believe

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

Hands, Letters, Kind

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.236, 谷月社

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Sometimes, Nonsense, Rage

George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.203

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Inspirational, Rain, Flower

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

Men, Middlemarch, Courses

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, Xist Publishing

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Grief, Silence, Suffering

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.427, Wordsworth Editions

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Character, Cutting, Body

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.480, Penguin

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

Dream, Names, Feelings

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Dog, Live Life, Animal

"Puppy Love: new BBC4 comedy explores the UK's canine compulsion" by Joanna Scanlan & Vicki Pepperdine, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2014.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

Language, Slang

Middlemarch bk. 1, ch. 11 (1871 - 1872)

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

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