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George Eliot Quotes - Page 9

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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Positive, Integrity, Character

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Mind, May, Invisible

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

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Life, Wisdom, Peace

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Life, Past, Reality

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.75

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

Stupid, Compassion, People

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Rebellion, Defiance, One Thing

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.306, Penguin

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Past, Self, Sorrow

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.415, 谷月社

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

Men, Order, Style

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Life, Death, Kings

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Burning, Brightness, Saws

George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.77

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Men, Looks, Ostracism

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.420, Booklassic

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

Ciphers, Faces, Poet

George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.107

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

Moving, Lovely, Arms

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Determined, Action, Pity

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.219, Wordsworth Editions

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

Lying, Thinking, Yellow

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

Life, Writing, Letters

Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8 June 1856

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Inspirational, Men, Mind

George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.301, 谷月社

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

Dream, Daylight, Waking

George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

Religious, Taken, Fate

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Country, Spiritual, Taken

'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 3, ch. 24

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

Travel, Journey, Views

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.381

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Memories, Butterfly, Expectations

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.115, London

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Dog, Wall, Imagination

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

Children, Deeds, May

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.681, Broadview Press

It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

Mother, Reading, Son

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1728, Delphi Classics

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