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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

George Eliot
Friendship, Trust, Character
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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.

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

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

George Eliot
Character, Destiny, Aphorism
The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

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

George Eliot
Positive, Integrity, Character

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

George Eliot
Friendship, Character, Self
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.162, Booklassic

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

George Eliot
Love, Character, Men
George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.164, Xist Publishing

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

George Eliot
Character, Self, Mind

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.

George Eliot
Character, Needs, Theory
George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.98, 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.

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

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