“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.” — 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
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
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other -… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — 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
