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George Eliot Quotes and Quotations
 It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world. - George Eliot | Ability and Achievement Quotes  Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Animals Quotes Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot | Bores and Boredom Quotes Necessity does the work of courage. - George Eliot | Courage and Bravery Quotes What makes life dreary is want of motive. - George Eliot | Indifference and Apathy Quotes What loneliness is more lonely than distrust. - George Eliot | Loneliness Quotes Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness. - George Eliot | Men Quotes Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me. - George Eliot | Music Quotes There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. - George Eliot | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. - George Eliot | Silence Quotes Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot | Speakers and Speeches Quotes Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes 'Tis what I love determines how I love. - George Eliot | Happiness Quotes Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly. - George Eliot | Forgiveness Quotes Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot | Other Side Quotes Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart. - George Eliot | Other Side Quotes When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. - George Eliot | Other Side Quotes What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot | Helping Other People Quotes 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. - George Eliot | Helping Other People Quotes Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another! - George Eliot | Helping Other People Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Friendship Quotes The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to revere. - George Eliot | God Quotes What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot | Faith and Unity Quotes Those who trust us educate us. - George Eliot | Faith and Unity Quotes The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. - George Eliot | Self-Control Quotes Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot | Self-Control Quotes Might, could, would-they are contemptible auxiliaries. - George Eliot | Self-Confidence Quotes Time, like money, is measured by our needs. - George Eliot | One Day Quotes The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day. - George Eliot | One Day Quotes It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop. - George Eliot | The Past Quotes Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. - George Eliot | The Past Quotes A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot | Positive Quotes It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot | Visualization Quotes Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. - George Eliot | Change Quotes The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. - George Eliot | Decisions Quotes What makes life dreary is want of motive. - George Eliot | Motivation Quotes It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot | Motivation Quotes Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot | Realistic Expectations Quotes In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. - George Eliot | Goals Quotes No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. - George Eliot | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning. - George Eliot | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning. - George Eliot | Courage Quotes It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it. - George Eliot | Getting Going Quotes Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot | Getting Going Quotes Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. - George Eliot | Perfection Quotes 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio. - George Eliot | Action Quotes There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes Better a false belief than no belief at all. - George Eliot | Failures and Mistakes Quotes Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. - George Eliot | Self-Pity Quotes There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music. - George Eliot | Applause Quotes Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Animals Quotes What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot | Distrust Quotes Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot | Friends Quotes A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. - George Eliot | Hope Quotes Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again. - George Eliot | Immortality Quotes More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. - George Eliot | Pity Quotes He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. - George Eliot | Self-Love Quotes It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner. - George Eliot | Thrift Quotes Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. - George Eliot | Word Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot | Friend Quotes 
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