George Eliot Quotes About Middlemarch
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
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You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
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Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.
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The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
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Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another
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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch
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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
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Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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