George Eliot Quotes
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Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
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As leopard feels at home with leopard.
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
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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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One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
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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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College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
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"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
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I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.