George Eliot on Mind
Browse 6 quotations attributed to George Eliot, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Eliot, entry #59235: "I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."
Attributed to George Eliot, entry #176075: "Our life is determined for us — and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do."
6 Quotes by George Eliot on Mind
"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."
"Our life is determined for us — and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do."
"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
"Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another."
"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."
"She nursed him, she read to him, she anticipated his wants, and was solicitous about his feelings; but there had entered into the husband's mind the certainty that she judged him, and that her wifely devotedness was like a penitential expiation of unbelieving thoughts—was accompanied with a power of comparison by which himself and his doings were seen too luminously as a part of things in general. His discontent passed vaporlike through all her gentle loving manifestations, and clung to that unappreciative world which she had only brought nearer to him."