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George Eliot Quotes - Page 6

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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Success, Sports, New Year

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Sorrow, Trying, Failing

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Magic, Transcendent

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Education, College, People

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.143, London

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

Home, Reputation, Ruined

'Felix Holt' (1866) epilogue

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Men, Infatuation, Recklessness

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.716, Wordsworth Editions

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

Men, World, Suits

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

Sorrow, Sublime, Speech

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.171

Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

Life, Distance, Views

George Eliot (1883*). “The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot”

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Money, Luxury, Giving

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2974, ShandonPress

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

Travel, Shapes, Fool

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Heaven, Earth, Fit

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.317

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Life, Change, Influence

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2578, ShandonPress

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequence

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.170, George Eliot

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

Stupid, Book, Literature

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.135, Xist Publishing

A good horse makes short miles.

Horse, Equestrian, Miles

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

Enemy, Harder, Niceties

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.61

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People, Blameless

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.110, Xist Publishing

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Beautiful, Witty, Giving Up

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1147, Wordsworth Editions

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

Brain, Becoming, Mathematics

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.112, 谷月社

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

Cat, Wonder, Dairy

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Mistake, Animal, Men

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.388, Penguin

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