Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and… — 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
“That was an evil terror---- an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But the first glad moment in our first love is a vision which returns to us to the last, and brings with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A great historian, as he insisted on calling himself, who had the happiness to be dead a hundred and twenty years ago,… — 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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