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Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«It is never too late to become what you might have been»
«Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
alternate, alternating, heights, infatuation, Infatuations, pauses, persistent, rave, raved, raves, raving
«Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Conscience,
Growth
| Keywords:
bud, budded, budding, circulation, detect, detects, registered, registering, registers, sap, saps, The Register
«But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.»
«The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Time,
Work
| Keywords:
approaching, rush, treble, trebles
«Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?»
«Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
christen, christened, christening, opposition, persecution
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
casket, caskets, dependence, despairing, expectation, faint, formerly, groped, grope for, groping, inevitably, in darkness, lock, locked, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, Silas, slight, stirring
«'Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
break even, break wind, by and by, cathedral, charm, dreamy, keyholes, mortals, organ, rush, seemed, The Cathedral, The Sound, Through the Keyhole, whistled, whistles, whistling
«Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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