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Men Quotes by George Eliot

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There are various orders of beauty that can make men act foolishly in many ways. Eliot points out that men often waste opportunity, and that they may outlive their love but not the fallout of reckless choices. He also notes that true happiness comes from caring for others rather than chasing personal pleasure.

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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

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I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

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

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Man cannot choose his duties.

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Education is an asset no man can take away.

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But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

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What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

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Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order,

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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

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Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

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In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

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A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved…

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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to…

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and…

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The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion…

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Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and…

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When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a…

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It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive…

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There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women…

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Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can…

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Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any…

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“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the…

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“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which…

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It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on…

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The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and…

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How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?…

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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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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of…

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The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of…

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“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar…

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the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed…

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I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people…

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He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following…

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Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of…

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Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;…

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

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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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

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…

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

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

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…