I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with… — 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
Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close… — 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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