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George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot quotes

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

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A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom. George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes from the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and healed, to have despaired and recovered hope. George Eliot
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories. George Eliot
Mrs. Deane was a thin-lipped woman, who made small well-considered speeches on peculiar occasions, repeating them afterwards to her husband, and asking him if she had not spoken very properly. George Eliot
Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, was not without influence over her husband. No woman is; she can always incline him to do either what she wishes, or the reverse... George Eliot
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot
Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness..."
what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing..."
If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally. George Eliot
Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but..."
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. George Eliot
Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no..."
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. George Eliot
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. George Eliot

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