Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
“Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When the commonplace "We must all die" transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness "I must die-- and soon," then death grapples… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music… — 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
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. — 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
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the midst of life we are in death” — how the present moment is all we can call our own for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshiping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“the involuntary loss of any familiar object almost always brings a chill as from an evil omen; it seems to be the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might… — 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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