George Eliot Quotes
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
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Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
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It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.
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... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
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A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
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It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.