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Quotations By George Eliot


Beauty
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.

Duty
And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory.

Duty
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.

Expectation
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Joy
Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.

Pain
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. -- George Eliot

Silence
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.

Success
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.

Suffer
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. -- George Eliot