Quotes by George Eliot

George Eliot

George Eliot

English writer and poet

Lived from: 1819 - 1880

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 november 1819 Died: 22 december 1880

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  • My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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  • No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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  • No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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  • No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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  • No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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  • Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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  • Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
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  • One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
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  • One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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  • One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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  • Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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  • Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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  • Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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  • Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
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  • Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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  • Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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  • Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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  • Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
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  • Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
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  • Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
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