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George Eliot Quotes about Heart

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The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

Life, Heart, Men

George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Real, Lying, Heart

Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 20 (1871 - 1872)

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Heart, Squirrels, History

"Middlemarch". Volume 1,

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

Death, Heart, Waiting

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

Heart, Sadness, Ties

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Heart, Sorrow, Trouble

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Love, Heart, Needs

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

Sympathy, Heart, Shelter

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.235

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Heart, Men, Idols

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Heart, Done, Bits

George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.293, Oxford University Press

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

Heart, People, Evil

George Eliot (2006). “Everyone and everything in George Eliot”, M E Sharpe Inc

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

Heart, Mountain, Proud

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Heart, People, Sorrow

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.332, Delphi Classics

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

Beauty, Sweet, Heart

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3376, Delphi Classics

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

Heart, Forbidden Love, Needs

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Love, Heart, Caring

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.690, 谷月社

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Happiness, Women, Heart

When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

Pain, Heart, Thinking

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3803, Delphi Classics

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

Sympathy, Heart, Men

George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

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