George Eliot Quotes
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
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Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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The Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
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There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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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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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
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Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
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It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
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The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Hear Everything and judge for yourself.
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Joy is the best of wine.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.