Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding… — 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
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — 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
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be… — 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
Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy… — 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
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
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can… — 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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