O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.'… — 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
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of… — 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
