The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can… — 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
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our… — 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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