“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“That is a beautiful mysticism - it is a - ' 'Please not to call it by any name,' said Dorothea, putting… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Having made his clerical toilet with due care in the morning, he was prepared only for those amenities of life which were… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A bride and bridegroom, surrounded by all the appliances of wealth, hurried through the day by the whirl of society, filling their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no… — 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
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may… — 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
Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours… — 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
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