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
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“They had gone forth together into their life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Shallow natures dream of an easy sway over the emotions of others, trusting implicitly in their own petty magic to turn the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is so with emotional natures whose thoughts are no more than the fleeting shadows cast by feeling: to them words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. — 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
