Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care… — 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
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together;… — 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
