Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There are faces which charge with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, ma not become picturesque through aerial distance? What hymning of cancerous vices may… — 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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