George Eliot Quotes

1K quotes · Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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George Eliot Quotes

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Courageous

“I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.”

Thinking Men Courage

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Spiritual

“I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.”

Soul God Humble

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Love

“Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.”

Perfect Feels

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Hopeful

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

Men Finding Yourself

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Grateful

“If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.”

Ifs Trouble Worst

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Hopeful

“We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.”

Remember Expectations Born

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Angry

“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”

Literature Truth

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Melancholic

“That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.”

Punishment Yoke

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Philosophical

“It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.”

Fire Ignorance Discovery

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Anxious

“We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.”

Self Looks Achievement

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Spiritual

“It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.”

Trying Difficult

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Courageous

“All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.”

Passion Outlets

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