Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? — 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
“When the commonplace "We must all die" transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness "I must die-- and soon," then death grapples… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Scenes which make vital changes in our neighbors' lot are but the background of our own, yet, like a particular aspect of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a… — George Eliot Copy Share
“After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the earth is different from the delirious vision… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share
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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