Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use… — 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 can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the… — 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
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes… — 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
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds. — 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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