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
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. — 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
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. — 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
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling. — 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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