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George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot quotes

British Author, Writer November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880

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George Eliot quote: "An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. George Eliot
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by..."
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. George Eliot
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. George Eliot
Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o' clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "College mostly makes people like bladders— just good for..."
College mostly makes people like bladders— just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em. George Eliot
A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more..."
What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle? George Eliot
Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were..."
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we..."
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot
eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all we've got to do is to trusten - Master Marner, to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger nor what we can know. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."
He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James. George Eliot
It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. George Eliot
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference. George Eliot

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