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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: "Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it..."
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor..."
Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth. George Eliot
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. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t'..."
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "I have never done you injustice. Please remember me? said..."
I have never done you injustice. Please remember me? said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "It's well known there's always two sides, if no more."
It's well known there's always two sides, if no more. George Eliot
Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear. George Eliot
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me..."
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me. George Eliot
We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence. George Eliot
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. George Eliot
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. George Eliot
For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. George Eliot
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his. George Eliot

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