In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and… — George Eliot Copy Share
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — 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
“But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.” — 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
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — 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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