George Eliot Quotes

• What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

  George Eliot

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• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

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• It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

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• Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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• Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

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• We hand folks over to G-d’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

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• Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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• Adventure is not outside a man; it is within

  George Eliot

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• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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• People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

  George Eliot

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• For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

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  It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

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• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

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• A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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• A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

  George Eliot

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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 some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

  George Eliot

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• But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Human, Philosophy

• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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• Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

  George Eliot

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George Eliot (181)

Birth:	22nd November, 1819
Death:	22nd December, 1880
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Translator

About

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was an English novelist and translator. She wrote several novels include: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. In fact, her first major literary work was an English translation of Strauss's The Life of Jesus, which she completed after it had been left incomplete by another member of the "Rosehill Circle".

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