George Eliot

George Eliot

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."
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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."
George Eliot
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
George Eliot
"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive."
George Eliot
"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
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."
George Eliot
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."
George Eliot
"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
George Eliot
"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."
George Eliot
"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
George Eliot
"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
George Eliot
"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
"I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building."
George Eliot
"Our words have wings but fly not where we would."
George Eliot
"It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner."
George Eliot
"It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop."
George Eliot
"Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot
"Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs."
George Eliot
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
George Eliot
"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
George Eliot
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