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
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
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There are certain animals to which tenacity of position is a law of life,–they can never flourish again, after a single wrench:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poor child! it was very early for her to know one of those supreme moments in life when all we have hoped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling… — 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,… — 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… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“They had gone forth together into their life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Having made this rather lofty comparison I am less uneasy in calling attention to the existence of low people by whose interference,… — 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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