George Eliot citations (302 citations, Page 5)

Chapter 53 http://books.google.com/books?id=0OU8AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Howiver+I'm+not+deny+in+the+women+are+foolish+God+Almighty+made+em+to+match+the+men%22&pg=PA530#v=onepage <br class="br">Adam Bede (1859)

“While the arm is strong to strike and heave,
Let soul and arm give shape that will abide…”

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The Legend of Jubal (1869)

“Fancy what a game at chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own; if your knight could shuffle himself on to a new square by the sly; if your bishop, in disgust at your castling, could wheedle your pawns out of their places; and if your pawns, hating you because they are pawns, could make away from their appointed posts that you might get checkmate on a sudden. You might be the longest-headed of deducted reasoners, and yet you might be beaten by your own pawns. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt.
Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with the game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for his instruments. He thinks himself sagacious, perhaps, because he trusts no bond except that of self-interest; but the only self-interest he can safely rely on is what seems to be such to the mind he would use or govern. Can he ever be sure of knowing this?”

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George Eliot livre Felix Holt, the Radical

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Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)

“It is true that an observer, under that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people’s hardships picturesque, might have been delighted with this homestead called Freeman’s End.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“But a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited—a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage— a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“The beings closest to us, whether in love or hate, are often virtually our interpreters of the world, and some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them — like a piece of yellow and wavy glass that distorts form and makes colour an affliction. Their trivial sentences, their petty standards, their low suspicions, their loveless ennui, may be making somebody else's life no better than a promenade through a pantheon of ugly idols.”

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George Eliot livre Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda (1876)

“Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.”

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George Eliot

Book 1
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

“But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”

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George Eliot

Letter to Charles Bray (15 November 1857)

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