George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot
George Eliot
British Author
Born: Nov 22, 1819
Died: Dec 22, 1880
Great Life Love Man Our Will
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
You Too Late Never Too Late Too Late Never It Is Never Too Late Been Might
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot
Man Communication Giving Blessed Nothing Say Evidence Having Fact Abstain Wordy Who
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot
Life Mother Face Mother's Day Began Up Waking Waking Up Loving
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot
Our Determine Us Much Deeds
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
Memories Other Silent Joined Unspeakable Feel Greater Souls Than Human Each Thing Strengthen Two
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot
Death Our Never Until Dead Forgotten Them Us
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot
Love Soul Blessed True Another Human Influence Loving Human Soul
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot
Pet Animals Criticisms Pass Questions Friends Ask Agreeable
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 Bird Fly Autumn Earth Would Seeking About Delicious Were Very Successive
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot
Life Live Difficult Other Make Less Each
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot
Gardening Rain Plant Will Trees Must More Never Want Roses Relatable Sad Relatable
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. George Eliot
Funny Thought Sun Risen Crow Had He Like Him Hear Who
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. George Eliot
Feeling Other Intimacy Once Embarrassment Mutual Something Having Feels Existed Effect Done Which Each Away
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. George Eliot
Smile Wrinkles Wear Friends
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot
Loneliness Lonely Distrust More Than
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. George Eliot
You Down Enough Seventy Between Always Years Being Them Turn Asked Fifty Decrepit Hardest Things
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. George Eliot
Opportunity Cruelty Every Other Only Outside Like Motive Itself Vice Requires
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot
Man Outside Adventure Within
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 Old Think Say Out Easy Never Knit New Trace New Friends How Friends Fibers Them Us
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. George Eliot
Great Together Small Things Great Things Brought Small Done Impulse Series Things
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot
Veterans Day Reward Power Duty Another Fulfill
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. George Eliot
Peace Election Poultry Sincere Coming Interest Lives Universal Foxes
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 Silence Heart Vision Grass Other Side Would Would-Be Beat Had Roar Like Hearing Die Squirrel Human Ordinary Which Should Human Life Grow Keen
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
Inspirational Beautiful Never Give Up Good Me Longing Thoroughly Alive Hunger Must Give Seems Never Feel Wishing Up After While Them Certain Certain Things Things
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 Stream Past Gone Nothing Visit See Rush Angels Only Come Know Golden Them Sand Us Moments
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot
Death Great Our Severity Tenderness Never Come Repent
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