It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to… — 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
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt… — 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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