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
“Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Scenes which make vital changes in our neighbors' lot are but the background of our own, yet, like a particular aspect of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing but what’s bearable as long as a man can work,” he said to himself; “the natur o’ things doesn’t change,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said… — 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
It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A man must have a very rare genius to make changes of that sort. I am afraid mine would not carry me… — 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 Image
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 Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — 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
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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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