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George Eliot Quotes

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We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands  (George Eliot Quotes) A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man  (George Eliot Quotes) It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self  (George Eliot Quotes) The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness  (George Eliot Quotes) Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don’t you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that’s all  (George Eliot Quotes) Women should be protected from anyone’s exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature  (George Eliot Quotes) I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do  (George Eliot Quotes) The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered  (George Eliot Quotes) It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks  (George Eliot Quotes) The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination  (George Eliot Quotes) I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you  (George Eliot Quotes) I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now  (George Eliot Quotes) To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep  (George Eliot Quotes) It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound  (George Eliot Quotes) It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog  (George Eliot Quotes) Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly  (George Eliot Quotes) Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science  (George Eliot Quotes) Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother  (George Eliot Quotes) I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson  (George Eliot Quotes) A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved  (George Eliot Quotes) Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible  (George Eliot Quotes) You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin  (George Eliot Quotes) If a woman’s young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed  (George Eliot Quotes) In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues  (George Eliot Quotes) Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation  (George Eliot Quotes) What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?  (George Eliot Quotes) Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn’t come too late. It’s well we should feel as life’s a reckoning we can’t make twice over; there’s no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right  (George Eliot Quotes) I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear  (George Eliot Quotes) It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves  (George Eliot Quotes) Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion  (George Eliot Quotes)
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