“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in… — 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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