George Eliot Quotes about Fate

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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

George Eliot

Fate, Self, Deception

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

George Eliot

Children, Fate, Littles

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.

George Eliot

Religious, Taken, Fate

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

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

George Eliot

Giving Up, Fate, Thinking

1860 The Mill on the Floss, bk.5, ch.1.