George Eliot Quotes

1K quotes · Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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George Eliot Quotes

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Creative

“College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.”

People Education College

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Philosophical

“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?”

Needs Play Inward

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Love

“It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.”

Heart Needs

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Melancholic

“Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.”

Pain Sorrow

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Thoughtful

“Hear Everything and judge for yourself”

Judging Judgement

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Adventurous

“What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?”

Men Opportunity

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Philosophical

“There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.”

Memories Disappointment

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Wise

“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.”

Men Names Virtue

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Funny

“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. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.”

Mind Integrity Elements

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Angry

“The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.”

People Thinking Hobbies

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Philosophical

“There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.”

Knowing Wine Beer

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Wise

“The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.”

Ideas Self Animal

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