“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personæ folded in her hand.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For the tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from within. "Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms,–"character is… — 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
Fate has carried me Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my… — 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