Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

Top 10 Best Quotes

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

“Those who trust us educate us.”

“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”

“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

“Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.”

“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”

“It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.”

“It is one of the secrets in that change of mental poise which has been fitly named conversion, that to many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a peculiar influence, subduing them into receptiveness..”

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”

“People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.”

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