Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“and she rarely forgot that while her grammar and accent were above the town standard, she wore a plain cap, cooked the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will… — 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
“If you think it incredible that to imagine Lydgate as a man of family could cause thrills of satisfaction which had anything… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver was what is called a good-tempered person,–never cried, when she was a baby, on any slighter ground than hunger and… — 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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