... 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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 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
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — 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
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest… — 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
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
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. — 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
“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
“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
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within… — 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
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
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
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
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
“[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
“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
“... 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
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
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
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
