As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless… — 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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