So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed… — 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