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George Eliot Quotes

I shall never love anybody. I can’t love people. I hate them.’ ‘The time will come, dear, the time will come Picture Quote #1

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like the foot soldiers, who hear nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle they are in, but hear plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey Picture Quote #1

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man’s general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn’t insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman Picture Quote #1

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling Picture Quote #1

Poor dog! I’ve a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to ‘em because they couldn’t. I can’t help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there’s no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can’t say half what we feel, with all our words Picture Quote #1

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue Picture Quote #1

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It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory Picture Quote #1

I can’t bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing Picture Quote #1

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? Picture Quote #1

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at Picture Quote #1

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in Picture Quote #1

Well, I aren’t like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there’s no good i’ speaking Picture Quote #1

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Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published ‘The World of Mind,’ is the Isaac Taylor, author of the ‘Natural History of Enthusiasm.’ I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain Picture Quote #1

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm Picture Quote #1

Letter-writing I imagine is counted as ‘work’ from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer Picture Quote #1

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect Picture Quote #1

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know Picture Quote #1

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don’t understand women. They don’t admire you half so much as you admire yourselves Picture Quote #1

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But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last Picture Quote #1

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms Picture Quote #1

If Darwin’s theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present Picture Quote #1

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime Picture Quote #1

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

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! Picture Quote #1

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment Picture Quote #1

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl Picture Quote #1

The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination Picture Quote #1

If a woman’s young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed Picture Quote #1

Every man’s work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life Picture Quote #1

‘Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio Picture Quote #1

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I shall never love anybody. I can’t love people. I hate them.’ ‘The time will come, dear, the time will come (George Eliot Quotes) As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like the foot soldiers, who hear nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle they are in, but hear plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey (George Eliot Quotes) But I think it is hardly an argument against a man’s general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn’t insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman (George Eliot Quotes) Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling (George Eliot Quotes) Poor dog! I’ve a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to ‘em because they couldn’t. I can’t help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there’s no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can’t say half what we feel, with all our words (George Eliot Quotes) To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue (George Eliot Quotes) It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory (George Eliot Quotes) I can’t bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing (George Eliot Quotes) What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? (George Eliot Quotes) We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at (George Eliot Quotes) Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in (George Eliot Quotes) Well, I aren’t like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there’s no good i’ speaking (George Eliot Quotes) Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published ‘The World of Mind,’ is the Isaac Taylor, author of the ‘Natural History of Enthusiasm.’ I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain (George Eliot Quotes) ... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm (George Eliot Quotes) Letter-writing I imagine is counted as ‘work’ from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer (George Eliot Quotes) ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect (George Eliot Quotes) ... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know (George Eliot Quotes) Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don’t understand women. They don’t admire you half so much as you admire yourselves. (George Eliot Quotes) But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last. (George Eliot Quotes) Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms (George Eliot Quotes) If Darwin’s theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present (George Eliot Quotes) What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. (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. (George Eliot Quotes) Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! (George Eliot Quotes) Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment. (George Eliot Quotes) You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. (George Eliot Quotes) The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination. (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) Every man’s work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life. (George Eliot Quotes) ‘Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio. (George Eliot Quotes)

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