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George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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More quotes by George Eliot
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
George Eliot
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
George Eliot
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
George Eliot
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
George Eliot
But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
George Eliot
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
George Eliot
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
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 distance!
George Eliot
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
George Eliot
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
George Eliot
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
George Eliot
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
George Eliot
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.
George Eliot
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George Eliot
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
George Eliot
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
George Eliot
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
George Eliot
Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.
George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
George Eliot
