George Eliot Quotes
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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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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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.
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Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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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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It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
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In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
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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.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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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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Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
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No eye saw him, while with loving pride Each voice with each in praise of Jubal vied. Must he in conscious trance, dumb, helpless lie While all that ardent kindred passed him by? His flesh cried out to live with living men, And join that soul which to the inward ken Of all the hymning train was present there.