George Eliot Quotes

1K quotes · Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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George Eliot Quotes

All Philosophical Love Creative Angry Funny 1K quotes · page 29 of 50

George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Philosophical

“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”

Life Games Air

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Philosophical

“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”

Feelings Communication Language

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Creative

“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”

Inspirational Discipline

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Philosophical

“Particular lies may speak a general truth.”

Lying May

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Philosophical

“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”

Men Lying Should Have

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Angry

“Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.”

Night Voice Silence

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Angry

“There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.”

Hatred Hiking Ladders

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Love

“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”

Heart Love Caring

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Grieving

“It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.”

Cutting Spring Grief

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Melancholic

“We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.”

Secret Judging Sin

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Grieving

“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”

Fall Struggle Grief

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Happy

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”

Order Baby Beauty

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