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Soul Quotes by George Eliot

46 Soul quotes by George Eliot

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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul. George Eliot’s quotes describe the soul as having a limited range, needing hope, and being hard to understand for those focused on themselves. They also say that age can deepen a soul’s goodness and that true grief comes from confronting one’s own inner thoughts.

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

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“There comes a moment when the soul must have no guide but the voice within it.”

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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

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“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

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

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Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

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The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

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“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.”

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking…

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I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter…

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“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within…

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When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever…

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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny…

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Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in…

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's…

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of…

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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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“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to…

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... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy…

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Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it…

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Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man…

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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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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so…

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Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance,…

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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which…

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There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have…

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“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is…

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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

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“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as…

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For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness…

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The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see…

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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a…

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The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and…

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Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine…

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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other -…

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Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their…

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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…