George Eliot Quotes

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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
• What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the…
• Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of…
• Joy is the best of wine.
• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
• I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
• Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;…
• Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
• It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
• The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving…
• As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
• It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great…
• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within…
• The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

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