226 Quotations by George Eliot
- 121. No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
- 122. No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same in ...
- 123. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- 124. Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus ...
- 125. Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, wh ...
- 126. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th ...
- 127. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- 128. One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it ...
- 129. One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
- 130. One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
- 131. Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls ...
- 132. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
- 133. Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; the ...
- 134. Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
- 135. Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, chi ...
- 136. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- 137. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- 138. Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
- 139. Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to th ...
- 140. Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, brin ...
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