George Eliot Quotes

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.