George Eliot Quotes

1K quotes · Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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George Eliot Quotes

All Philosophical Love Creative Angry Funny 1K quotes · page 26 of 50

George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Creative

“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”

Simple Wisdom Compassion

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Philosophical

“For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.”

Life Past Reality

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Regretful

“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”

Men Inspirational Sweet

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Funny

“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”

Thinking Truth Is

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Grieving

“Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.”

Looks Death

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Angry

“Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.”

Winning Victory Heroism

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Love

“The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.”

Moving Arms Lovely

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Grieving

“Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.”

Mind May Invisible

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Creative

“Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.”

Dog Wall Imagination

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Spiritual

“What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.”

Men Spiritual Crowns

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Philosophical

“We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.”

Blood Nerves Subtle

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Confident

“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”

Fear Perseverance Failure

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