“Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate… — 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
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old Featherstone, I will not presume to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Nonsense, child! Nature never makes a ferret in the shape of a mastiff. You’ll never persuade me that I can’t tell what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — 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
