George Eliot Quotes
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me.
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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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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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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Jubal had a frame Fashioned to finer senses, which became A yearning for some hidden soul of things, Some outward touch complete on inner springs That vaguely moving bred a lonely pain, A want that did but stronger grow with gain Of all good else, as spirits might be sad For lack of speech to tell us they are glad.
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I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God Almighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.
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Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.
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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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Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so.