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World Quotes by George Eliot

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George Eliot notes that tiny acts can spread good across the world. She says true happiness comes from caring for others, not just personal pleasure. She reminds us that sorrow is part of love and helps us grow. She also points out that our beliefs about the world shape how we act.

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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

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This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine…

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“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”

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We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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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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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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You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a…

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autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes…

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... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are…

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music…

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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us…

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It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,…

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Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

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The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest…

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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in…

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It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on…

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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage…

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Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a…

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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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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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And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have…

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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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the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed…

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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to…

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The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died…

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Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier…

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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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It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces…

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I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship…

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Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is…

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We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold…

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There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them,…

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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…

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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…

“... 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…