Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? — 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
Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come. — 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
“there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other -… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — 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
What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the… — 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
“After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But the first glad moment in our first love is a vision which returns to us to the last, and brings with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. — 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
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit,… — 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
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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