The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is… — 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
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so many in my life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don’t… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“God help the lad, and me too,” he thought, as he lifted the board. “We’re like enough to find life a tough… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find… — 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
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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