Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — 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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