George Eliot quotes - page 4

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. (George Eliot)
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. View quote
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Childhood has no forebodings but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. View quote
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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. View quote
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. View quote
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. View quote
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. View quote
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Breed is stronger than pasture. View quote
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. View quote
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. (George Eliot)
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. View quote
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. View quote
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. View quote
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There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. View quote
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. View quote
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. View quote
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There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. View quote
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Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . . View quote
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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. (George Eliot)
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. View quote
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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . View quote
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . . View quote
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