“… blameless people are always the most exasperating!”
George Eliot
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“Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.”
George Eliot
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“… it is seldom a medical man has true religious views–there is too much pride of intellect.”
George Eliot
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“When I was young … there never was any question about right and wrong. We knew our catechism, and that was enough; we learned our creed and our duty. Every respectable Church person had the same opinions. But, now if you speak out of the Prayer-book itself, you are liable to be contradicted.”
George Eliot
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“… religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
George Eliot
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“Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans–which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
George Eliot
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“There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.”
George Eliot
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“When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn’t have the end without them.”
George Eliot
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“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
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“Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel … will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent.”
George Eliot
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“You should read history–look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
George Eliot
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“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
George Eliot
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“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never comparethem with each other?”
George Eliot
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“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views oflife, on their faith in the Invisible–nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where by beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas–where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.”
George Eliot
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“For character too is a process and an unfolding … among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?”
George Eliot
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“The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.”
George Eliot
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“We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”
George Eliot
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“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
George Eliot
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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
George Eliot
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“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest withmistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
George Eliot
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