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Inspirational Quotes by George Eliot

60 Inspirational quotes by George Eliot

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A foolish argument can feel right to the person who believes it, showing how our minds can trick us. The quotes speak of an unmapped inner country that we rarely explore, and they suggest that sharing a meal is a good time to speak truth. They also note the sorrow of loving something great yet failing.

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Go forward with joyful confidence.

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Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

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One can say everything best over a meal.

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A good solid bit of work lasts.

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Things are achieved when they are well begun.

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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

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Teach love, for that is what you are.

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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

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We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

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It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

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

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I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

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Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet…

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“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each…

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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight…

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In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of…

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“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a…

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It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always…

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Effective magic is transcendent nature.

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

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What is opportunity to a man who can't use it.

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Joy is the best of wine.

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Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

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Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

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A good horse makes short miles.

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Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

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In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

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This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

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But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

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We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

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Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

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“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

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