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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  • The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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  • The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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  • The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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.
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  • The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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  • The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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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 too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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  • The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
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  • The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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  • The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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  • There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
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  • There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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  • There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
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  • There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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  • There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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  • There's many a one who would be idle if hunger didn't pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work.
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  • Those who trust us educate us.
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  • To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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  • To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
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  • To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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