I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as… — 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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