It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — 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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