George Eliot Quotes

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

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

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

Death, Dead, Until

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

Mother's Day, Life, Mother

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

Love, True, Blessed

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

Anger, Love, Jealousy

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

Pet, Friends, Ask

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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot

Adventure, Within, Outside

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

Good, Beautiful, Give

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Nature, Soul, Earth

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot

Human, Two, Silent

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot

Life, Past, Nothing

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Life, Live, Difficult

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot

Life, Heart, Human

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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Family, Love, Marriage

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

Faith, Through, Jesus

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot

Love, Words, Friends

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

Failure, Good, Long

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Great, Hope, Sorrow

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Down, Enough, Between

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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Jealousy, Heart, Short

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot

Outside, Cruelty, Vice

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot

Women, God, Men

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

Vision, Tolerance, Lies

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot

Handsome, Full, Hopeful

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22, 1819

Died: December 22, 1880

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