Quote by George Eliot Download Open image ““The blessed work of helping the world forward happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.”” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“We don't reach the world by becoming great, but by loving. Let us strive to become great at loving.” — Hope D. Blackwell Copy Share Image
“I accept now that the point of life is not to reach perfection but to befriend the fact that human beings are works in… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“"The world's not perfect,but somethings in it are,and when we find them, we need not to let them go” — Katriena Knights Copy Share Image
“There are men who will not take the world as it is, who see to change things, to make an advantage for themselves.” — Tim Stead Copy Share Image
“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will see peace.” — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.” — Lawrence Durrell 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