It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get… — 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
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. — 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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