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Humans Quotes by George Eliot

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The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in kindness, a theme that runs through the quotes. They say our souls have a limited range, so we must learn tenderness and long‑suffering. The verses also compare love to poetry and ordinary life to hearing grass grow.

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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

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Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

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Human experience is usually paradoxical.

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The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

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Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

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I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

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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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The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

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There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

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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…

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... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should…

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A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and…

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The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph…

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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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A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention…

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There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a…

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Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness…

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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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In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together;…

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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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It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed…

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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and…

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

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A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of…

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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless…

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Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to…

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Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress…

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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 fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

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“I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that…

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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children…

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O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for…

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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and…

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So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive…

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“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty…

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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…