81 result(s) for George Eliot Quotes.
"Adventure is not outside; it is within."
"Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
"We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to belong to it."
"Love is not a mere impulse; it must contain truth, which is law."
"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
"Adventure is not outside a man; it is within."
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
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"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."
"Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them."
"The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another."
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."
"Don't judge a book by its cover."
"The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
"Those who trust us educate us."
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility."
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive."
"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
"Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before."
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"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
"People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are."
"One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil, as well as good."
"What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life―to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories."
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."
"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
"The responsibility which is attended with greater difficulty, is seen as higher than the responsibility which bears a proportionate amount of ease."
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."
"Whatever you are, try to be a good one."
"One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man."
"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire, is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
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"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive."
"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved."
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?"
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them."
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting."
"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees."
"The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
"Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."
"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
"That things are changed is true, but not that things are worse."
"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters."
"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."
"How wonderful to meet an old friend in the street."
"A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections."
"The troublesome world is so hard to know, and even the self is so hard to know."
"I desire no future that will break the sacred past."
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."
"The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness."
"…for what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"Justice is like the kingdom of God – it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning."
"It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who has duly considered the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down."
"The reward of companionship is not things done together, but the sense of things felt together."
"That loneliness which is known only to those who have loved and lost."
"Our finest hope is finest memory."
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