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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles (George Eliot Quotes)
Satan was a blunderer... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering (George Eliot Quotes)
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies (George Eliot Quotes)
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow (George Eliot Quotes)
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit (George Eliot Quotes)
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown (George Eliot Quotes)
There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest (George Eliot Quotes)
If troubles were put up to market, I’d sooner buy old than new. It’s something to have seen the worst (George Eliot Quotes)
When you’ve been used to doing things, and they’ve been taken away from you, it’s as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you (George Eliot Quotes)
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage (George Eliot Quotes)
When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men’s indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind (George Eliot Quotes)
A man’s a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men (George Eliot Quotes)
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness (George Eliot Quotes)
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove (George Eliot Quotes)
Your dunce who can’t do his sums always has a taste for the infinite (George Eliot Quotes)
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious (George Eliot Quotes)
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant’s bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope (George Eliot Quotes)
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth (George Eliot Quotes)
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours (George Eliot Quotes)
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful (George Eliot Quotes)
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue (George Eliot Quotes)
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown (George Eliot Quotes)
The mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy (George Eliot Quotes)
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man’s death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too (George Eliot Quotes)
It’s no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution (George Eliot Quotes)
You youngsters nowadays think you’re to begin with living well and working easy; you’ve no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback (George Eliot Quotes)
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves (George Eliot Quotes)
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever (George Eliot Quotes)
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever (George Eliot Quotes)
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends (George Eliot Quotes)