With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to… — 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
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
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with… — 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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