... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I call it improper pride to let fool's notions hinder you from doing a good action. There's no sort of work," said… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[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… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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