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
I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with… — 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
“If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception. — 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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