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George Eliot Quotes about Soul

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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

Echoes, Soul, Immortality

George Eliot (1871). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.287

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

Strong, Joy, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

Soul, Age, Ugly

George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.89, Sparklesoup LLC

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

Eye, Men, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.272, Penguin

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Men, Knowing, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.87, Penguin

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

Soul, Suits, Middlemarch

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.7

Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.

Forever, Soul, Vision

George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.49

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

Moving, Years, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.196, Penguin

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Soul, Opinion, Contradictory

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

Morning, Joy, Soul

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.603

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

Rivers, Soul, Receptive

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.185

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

Pride, Soul, Body

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1720, ShandonPress

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

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

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Hands, Remembrance, Soul

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3225, Delphi Classics

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Discovery, Agony, Soul

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.83, 谷月社

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

God, Humble, Soul

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

Strong, Fire, Soul

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.244

Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

Love, Men, Soul

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

Strong, Thinking, Soul

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

Joy, Soul, Desire

George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.2

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

Light, Soul, Answers

George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.141

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