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
“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
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
“It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — 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
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven… — 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
“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike. — 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
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. — 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
