In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
More Quotes from George Eliot:
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.George Eliot
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
George Eliot
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
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George Eliot
How will you find good It is not a thing of choice it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience
George Eliot
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