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George Eliot Quotes about Feelings

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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

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

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

Pain, Sadness, Feelings

George Eliot (1884). “George Eliot's Works”

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Men, Compassion, Feelings

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.406, Penguin

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

Rivers, Waiting, Feelings

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.152, London

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Girl, People, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.225, 谷月社

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Communication, Feelings, Language

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

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

People, Anxiety, Feelings

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

Pain, Feelings, Paradise

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6988, Delphi Classics

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Feelings, His Love, Speak

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.68

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

Hands, Soul, Feelings

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Feelings, Duty, Knows

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Soul, Feelings, Mutual Love

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.830, ShandonPress

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

Religious, Heaven, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Faith, Errors, Feelings

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.640, Broadview Press

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Average, Feelings, Depth

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1222, ShandonPress

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Feelings, Feeling Lost, Littles

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Destiny, Feelings, Firsts

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.890, ShandonPress

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

Prayer, Powerful, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.318, 谷月社

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Caring, Men, Feelings

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1625, Delphi Classics

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