The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — 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
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with… — 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
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — 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
“Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the… — 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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