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Way Quotes by George Eliot

33 Way quotes by George Eliot

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George Eliot’s 33 reflections on the Way reveal the depth of her narrative eye. Her thoughtful, often introspective prose invites readers to consider the moral and emotional contours of the paths we choose, making the collection a gentle companion for reflective minds.

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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

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I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose…

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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

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It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that…

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When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

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Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where…

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It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring…

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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the…

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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that…

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And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder…

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The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways…

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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea…

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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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Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what…

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If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the…

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How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root…

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Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure…

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...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use…

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“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to…

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I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if…

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Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest…

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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment…

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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same…

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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can…

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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot…

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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They…

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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in…

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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and…

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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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I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes…

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

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“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

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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, and hurt…

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