George Eliot quotes - page 10

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it. (George Eliot)
Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness. View quote
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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. View quote
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none. View quote
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. View quote
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Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. View quote
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! View quote
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In every parting there is an image of death. View quote
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. View quote
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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. View quote
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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. (George Eliot)
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. View quote
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She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. View quote
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One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. View quote
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Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say. View quote
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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. View quote
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. View quote
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. View quote
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. (George Eliot)
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. View quote
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. View quote
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