When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. — 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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