George Eliot - Love Quotes

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Learning to love any one is like an increase of property, — it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

George Eliot
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

George Eliot
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that — to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

George Eliot
He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.

George Eliot
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

George Eliot
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children — in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

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How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections?

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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

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There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

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But is it what we love, or how we love,
That makes true good?

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Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

George Eliot