Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has… — 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
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is so with emotional natures whose thoughts are no more than the fleeting shadows cast by feeling: to them words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at… — 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
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
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,… — 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
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
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift 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 business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and… — 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
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“They had gone forth together into their life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Shallow natures dream of an easy sway over the emotions of others, trusting implicitly in their own petty magic to turn the… — 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
“To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For a long while she lived in the hope that my evident wretchedness would drive me to the commission of suicide; but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to… — 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
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is our habit to say that while the lower nature can never understand the higher, the higher nature commands a complete… — 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
