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George Eliot Quotes

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth Picture Quote #1

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves Picture Quote #1

But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls Picture Quote #1

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them Picture Quote #1

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We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by Picture Quote #1

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty Picture Quote #1

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos Picture Quote #1

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy Picture Quote #1

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it Picture Quote #1

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else Picture Quote #1

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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama Picture Quote #1

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born Picture Quote #1

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement Picture Quote #1

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought Picture Quote #1

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired Picture Quote #1

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself Picture Quote #1

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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with Picture Quote #1

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy Picture Quote #1

I’m not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she’s there for Picture Quote #1

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering Picture Quote #1

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic Picture Quote #1

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it tomorrow Picture Quote #1

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass Picture Quote #1

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words Picture Quote #1

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music Picture Quote #1

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off Picture Quote #1

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing Picture Quote #1

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open Picture Quote #1

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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth (George Eliot Quotes) Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say (George Eliot Quotes) 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 (George Eliot Quotes) We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves (George Eliot Quotes) But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls (George Eliot Quotes) For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them (George Eliot Quotes) We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by (George Eliot Quotes) Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty (George Eliot Quotes) Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos (George Eliot Quotes) Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy (George Eliot Quotes) We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it (George Eliot Quotes) If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else (George Eliot Quotes) The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama (George Eliot Quotes) We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born (George Eliot Quotes) We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement (George Eliot Quotes) A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought (George Eliot Quotes) It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired (George Eliot Quotes) I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself (George Eliot Quotes) Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with (George Eliot Quotes) My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy (George Eliot Quotes) I’m not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she’s there for (George Eliot Quotes) We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering (George Eliot Quotes) The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic (George Eliot Quotes) A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it tomorrow (George Eliot Quotes) We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass (George Eliot Quotes) Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words (George Eliot Quotes) I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music (George Eliot Quotes) Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off (George Eliot Quotes) Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing (George Eliot Quotes) We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open (George Eliot Quotes)

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