Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother. — 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
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way… — 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
