but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — 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,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for… — 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
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
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of… — 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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