A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Dear heart, dear heart! But you must have a cup o’ tea first, child,” said Mrs. Poyser, falling at once from the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The group I am moving towards is at Caleb Garth's breakfast-table in the large parlor where the maps and desk were: father,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poor child! it was very early for her to know one of those supreme moments in life when all we have hoped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Nonsense, child! Nature never makes a ferret in the shape of a mastiff. You’ll never persuade me that I can’t tell what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If you want to know more particularly how Mary looked, ten to one you will see a face like hers in the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
