I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas… — 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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