Quotes by George Eliot

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

#George Eliot

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

#George Eliot

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

#George Eliot

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

#George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

#George Eliot

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling...

#George Eliot

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

#George Eliot

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

#George Eliot

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

#George Eliot