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Mind Quotes by George Eliot

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George Eliot imagines a hidden choir of past souls that lives on in our minds, making them richer. She notes that people want both love and the reassurance that they are loved. She also points out that a narrow mind cannot view a subject from many angles, while a clear mind feels like a fresh breakfast.

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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

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

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I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

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In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

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Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing…

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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

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The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great…

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“And your mind is a sort of world to me; you can tell me all I want to know. I think I…

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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

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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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Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything…

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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from…

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Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.'…

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Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade…

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When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.…

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“it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that…

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“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,…

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you…

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I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're…

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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined…

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For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little…

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Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords…

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But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know…

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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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Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be…

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;…

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I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering…

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I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out…

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“He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to…

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The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows,…

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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of…

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It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are…

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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion…

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I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's…

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In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded…

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As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple…

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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little…

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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents…

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... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those…

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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.

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

“[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…