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
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion… — 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
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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