Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ "Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885. ]” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. — 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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