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title: "19 Young Quotes By George Eliot"
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> [To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/to-the-old-sorrow-is-sorrow-to-the-young-it-is-despair/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/if-a-woman-s-young-and-pretty-i-think-you-can-see-her-good-looks-all/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/you-are-a-good-young-man-she-said-but-i-do-not-like-husbands-i-will/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/confound-you-handsome-young-fellows-you-think-of-having-it-all-your/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/there-is-hardly-any-contact-more-depressing-to-a-young-ardent/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [“A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/a-vigorous-young-mind-not-overbalanced-by-passion-finds-a-good-in/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/a-bachelor-s-children-are-always-young-they-re-immortal-children/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/the-difficult-task-of-knowing-another-soul-is-not-for-young-gentleman/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/obligation-may-be-stretched-till-it-is-no-better-than-a-brand-of/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-if-maggie-had-been-that-young-lady-you-would-probably-have-known/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/certainly-the-determining-acts-of-her-life-were-not-ideally-beautiful/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/it-is-one-of-the-gains-of-advancing-age-that-the-good-of-young/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/young-love-making-that-gossamer-web-even-the-points-it-clings-to-the/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/when-we-are-young-we-think-our-troubles-a-mighty-business-that-the/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/i-ve-seen-pretty-clear-ever-since-i-was-a-young-un-as-religion-s/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/one-has-to-spend-so-many-years-in-learning-how-to-be-happy-i-am-just/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/two-angels-guide-the-path-of-man-both-aged-and-yet-young-as-angels/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/he-was-one-of-those-men-and-they-are-not-the-commonest-of-whom-we-can/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/love-is-such-a-simple-thing-when-we-have-only-one-and-twenty-summers/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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## Other authors on Young

## More by George Eliot

> [There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/there-are-various-orders-of-beauty-causing-men-to-make-fools-of/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-the-effect-of-her-being-on-those-around-her-was-incalculably/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/scepticismcan-never-be-thoroughly-applied-else-life-would-come-to-a/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/under-every-guilty-secret-there-is-hidden-a-brood-of-guilty-wishes/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/the-most-powerful-movement-of-feeling-with-a-liturgy-is-the-prayer/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [ “\[W\]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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/w-e-must-learn-to-accommodate-ourselves-to-the-discovery-that-some-of/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/mr-casaubon-had-never-had-a-strong-bodily-frame-and-his-soul-was/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/she-took-her-husband-s-jokes-and-joviality-as-patiently-as-everything/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/what-is-opportunity-to-the-man-who-can-t-use-it-an-unfecundated-egg/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/and-of-course-men-know-best-about-everything-except-what-women-know/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-let-the-wise-be-warned-against-too-great-readiness-at-explanation/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-any-one-watching-keenly-the-stealthy-convergence-of-human-lots/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/perspective-as-its-inventor-remarked-is-a-beautiful-thing-what/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/sane-people-did-what-their-neighbours-did-so-that-if-any-lunatics/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

> [even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/even-those-who-call-themselves-intimate-know-very-little-about-each/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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