The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine… — 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
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier… — 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
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.” — 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
