George Eliot's Quotes

George Eliot's Quotes 63

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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Falsehood is easy truth so difficult.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are...

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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her...

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a...

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another.

I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would...

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to...

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