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George Eliot [Novelist, Poet, Journalist]


Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
- George Eliot
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
The days were longer then for time, like money, is measured by our needs, when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
- George Eliot
The days were longer then for time, like money, is measured by our needs, when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
- George Eliot
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
- George Eliot
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- George Eliot
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.
- George Eliot
Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
- George Eliot
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people"s eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
- George Eliot
You must mind and not lower the Church in people"s eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
- George Eliot
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
- George Eliot
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
- George Eliot
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
- George Eliot
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot
He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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