The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much." Will was not quite contented, thinking that… — 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
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties. — 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
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to beangry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“That plain, middle-aged face, with a grave penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the out-door world, for he meant to light up the home… — 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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