We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — 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
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have… — 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
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. — 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 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
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties. — 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
