George Eliot Quotes
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There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
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We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Trouble's made us kin.
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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
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How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.
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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;
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Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
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We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
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I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.