For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Having made his clerical toilet with due care in the morning, he was prepared only for those amenities of life which were… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — 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
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so many in my life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old Featherstone, I will not presume to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each… — 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
