George Eliot Quotes
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Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Teach love, for that is what you are.
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The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
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Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
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Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
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We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
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It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.