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“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

George Eliot book Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”

“Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.”

“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”

George Eliot book Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede (1859)
Context: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Don't judge a book by its cover”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch (1871)

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”

George Eliot book Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss