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“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent...”
George Eliot
,
Adam Bede
“Those who trust us educate us.”
George Eliot
,
Daniel Deronda
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth”
George Eliot
,
Adam Bede
“I'm not to be imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
George Eliot
,
The Mill on the Floss
“Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
George Eliot
,
Daniel Deronda
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
George Eliot
,
The Mill on the Floss
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“One can begin so many things with a new person! —even begin to be a better man.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“no anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”
George Eliot
,
The Mill on the Floss
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.”
George Eliot
,
The Mill on the Floss
“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”
George Eliot
,
The Mill on the Floss
“one has a grudge against a man who carries off the prettiest girl in the town. ”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“when a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“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.”
George Eliot
,
Daniel Deronda
“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
George Eliot
,
The Mill on the Floss
“Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing”
George Eliot
,
The Mill on the Floss
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
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