Top 20 quotes from George Eliot

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Top 20 quotes from George Eliot


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot


You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot


The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

George Eliot


There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

George Eliot


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.

George Eliot


Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot


In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot


When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

George Eliot


When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot


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

George Eliot


Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

George Eliot


In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

George Eliot


Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

George Eliot


We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

George Eliot


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

George Eliot


There are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot


The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

George Eliot


I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

George Eliot


It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot


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.

George Eliot

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Top 20 quotes from George Eliot