George Eliot Quotes

1K quotes · Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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George Eliot Quotes

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Nostalgic

“All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.”

Father Ends Alphabet

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Melancholic

“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”

Littles Feelings Feeling Lost

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Inspired

“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?”

Inspirational Names

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Courageous

“It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.”

Use Pockets

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Philosophical

“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”

Literature Nature Privacy

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Wise

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

Too Much Forgiveness

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Philosophical

“After all, the true seeing is within.”

Seeing Middlemarch

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Hopeful

“We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.”

Views Journey Travel

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Creative

“Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.”

Feelings Waiting Rivers

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Love

“I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.”

Men

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Creative

“Those who trust us educate us.”

Teaching Education

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Grateful

“Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.”

Thinking Giving Up Fate

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