“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“think that the rare Englishmen who have this gesture are never of the heavy type— for fear of any lumbering instance to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin'… — 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
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all that if we… — 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
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little… — 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
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
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
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
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
“[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
“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
“... 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
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
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“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
“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
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
