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Felt Quotes by George Eliot

10 Felt quotes by George Eliot

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When you need a compact glimpse into how a classic novelist describes the texture of emotion, this set of ten lines serves as a handy reference. The selections capture Eliot’s nuanced voice without overwhelming you, making it a solid starter for anyone curious about her take on what it means to truly feel.

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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

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We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through…

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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through…

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The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest…

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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and…

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When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut…

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

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If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have…

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

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

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

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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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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

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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…

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

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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 stronger sex…

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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.

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

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

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“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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