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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
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.
George Eliot
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
George Eliot
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
George Eliot
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
George Eliot
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.
George Eliot
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
George Eliot
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
George Eliot
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
George Eliot
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
George Eliot
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us as if life were not sacred too.
George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
George Eliot
Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
George Eliot
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
George Eliot
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
George Eliot
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
George Eliot
