George Eliot Quotes
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Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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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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Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
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How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Sad as a wasted passion.
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While the arm is strong to strike and heave, Let soul and arm give shape that will abide...
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.