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George Eliot  Quotes
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means –one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

—George Eliot

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Mistakes
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

—George Eliot

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AgonyIntrospectionLove
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we...

—George Eliot

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EncouragementFaithFriendship
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Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn’t like “feeling obligated to look serious”, and he centers his doubts on “what people expect of a clergyman”.

—George Eliot

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JoyMinistryPopularity
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Don’t judge a book by its cover

—George Eliot

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One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

—George Eliot

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Pride
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scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

—George Eliot

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Skepticism
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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...

—George Eliot

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Business
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs...

—George Eliot

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Heroes And Heroism
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Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

—George Eliot

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Kisses And Kissing
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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.

—George Eliot

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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

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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before–consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.

—George Eliot

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Consequences
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

—George Eliot

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We cannot reform our forefathers

—George Eliot

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Reform
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

—George Eliot

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DistrustLoneliness
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Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

—George Eliot

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Right
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The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

—George Eliot

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AmeliorationHumanismIndividual
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used...

—George Eliot

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ChildhoodLoveNature
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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

—George Eliot

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DiscoveryLifeWorld
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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...

—George Eliot

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Human-ConditionInsightfulInspiring
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will...

—George Eliot

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DatingMarriage
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

—George Eliot

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Duty
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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...

—George Eliot

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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

—George Eliot

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Beginning
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Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.

—George Eliot

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

—George Eliot

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ”Know thyself’,’ and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the...

—George Eliot

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Fear
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Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions

—George Eliot

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Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

—George Eliot

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Prophecy
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Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

—George Eliot

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But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the out-door world, for he meant to light up the home with new brightness, to deepen all the richness of in-door colour, and give...

—George Eliot

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Christmas
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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

—George Eliot

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ArtKnowledgePoetry
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Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will...

—George Eliot

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Soul
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Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

—George Eliot

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HumorousMiddlemarchSmall-Town-Life
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Aye, aye, that’s the way wi’ thee: thee allays makes a peck o’ thy own words out o’ a pint o’ the Bible’s

—George Eliot

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BibleExpositionPreaching
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

—George Eliot

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EmbarrassmentFeelingIntimacy
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

—George Eliot

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

—George Eliot

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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us

—George Eliot

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. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .

—George Eliot

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People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

—George Eliot

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We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

—George Eliot

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British AuthorMercy
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Consequences are unpitying.

—George Eliot

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British Author
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There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into...

—George Eliot

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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

—George Eliot

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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

—George Eliot

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MartyrsPoetsSages
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

—George Eliot

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LifeMusicPower-Of-Music
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Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

—George Eliot

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Fear
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Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

—George Eliot

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HumorSociety
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