How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her… — 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 is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and… — 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
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
