| 57 Famous Quotes by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail.”
Traveling Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.”
Greatness Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, 56th line from end)
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Greatness Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, 56th line from end)
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“We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions
in their danger.”
Fear Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VII, ch. V)
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“When you see fair hair
Be pitiful.”
Hair Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV)
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“The tread
Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher
Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause,
And hears them never pause, but pass and die.”
Footsteps Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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“When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,
Because the one so near the other is.”
Unity Quotes Source: Brother and Sister (pt. I, st. 1)
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“And rank for her meant duty, various,
Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.
Command was service; humblest service done
By willing and discerning souls was glory.”
Duty Quotes Source: Agatha
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“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”
Duty Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VI, ch. XLVI)
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“A man's a man,
But when you see a king, you see the work
Of many thousand men.”
Royalty Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“What makes like dreary is the want of motive.”
Motive Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VIII, ch. LXV)
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“I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin
between myself and God.”
Sin Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VI, ch. XIV)
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“The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity.”
Temptation Quotes Source: Felix Holt (ch. XLVII)
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“Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.”
Joy Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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“There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever
beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.”
Slander Quotes Source: Felix Holt (introduction)
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“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes
of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of
the smoker.”
Gossip Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
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“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
Kisses Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III, l. 251 from end of bk.)
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“Where you have friends you should not go to inns.”
Inns Quotes Source: Agatha
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“But certain winds will make men's temper bad.”
Wind Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,
And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries
For what has been and is not.”
Wind Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.”
Conceit Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. V, ch. IV)
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“As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.”
Luck Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
Distrust Quotes Source: Middlemarch (bk. V, ch. XLIV)
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“There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.”
Hatred Quotes Source: Felix Holt (introduction)
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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their
objects than love.”
Jealousy Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. I, ch. X)
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