| 57 Famous Quotes by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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“We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the
process by which results are arrived at.”
Judgment Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VII, ch. II)
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“That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own
wrong-doing.”
Punishment Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. V, ch. XXXVI)
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“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
Deeds Quotes Source: Adam Bede (ch. XXIX)
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“Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.”
Deeds Quotes Source: Motto to Middlemarch (ch. LXX)
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“O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.”
Night Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment the listening hours,--
Whisperings, wooings,
Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
Dark the night
Yet is she bright,
For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
From some unknown afar.”
Night Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, song)
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“All things journey: sun and moon,
Morning, noon, and afternoon,
Night and all her stars;
'Twixt the east and western bars
Round they journey,
Come and go!
We go with them!”
Progress Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III, song)
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“For strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength
In furthest striving action.”
Action Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV)
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“Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is
under a love which it cannot return.”
Vanity Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. I, ch. X)
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“The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of
mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.”
Feeling Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XVII)
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“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.”
Influence Quotes Source: Janet's Repentance (ch. XIX)
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“O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self.
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge man's search
To vaster issues.”
Influence Quotes Source: O May I Join the Choir Invisible
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“Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through endless years,
On one he leans: some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords: the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
A light divine and searching on the earth,
Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”
Reason Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. II)
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“Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by
unexpected words.”
Sensibility Quotes Source: Adam Bede (ch. XXVII)
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“These gems have life in them: their colors speak,
Say what words fail of.”
Jewels Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast
To pierce another.”
Fate Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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“Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible
consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went
before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.”
Results Quotes Source: Adam Bede (ch. XVI)
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“In every parting there is an image of death.”
Parting Quotes Source: Amos Barton (ch. X)
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“A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may
mean either of two contradictories.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. V, ch. XXXV)
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“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
Choice Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VI, ch. XLII)
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“A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain
To feel much anger.”
Anger Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“Anger seek it prey,--
Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,
Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love
To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.”
Anger Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
Anger Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far,
The voice divine of human loyalty.”
Echo Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV, l. 149)
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“In traveling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasure.”
Traveling Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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