George Eliot Quotes
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The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
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It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
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It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
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It seems to me now, if I was to find Father at home to-night, I should behave different; but there's no knowing - perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
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Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?
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It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You can always make a change for the better no matter what background you derived from. You can always do your best and be all that you can be because you will always be uniquely you. It is why it is always wise to listen to your eternal heart, your eternal instincts, and what it had always strove for and/or to do because really anybody can make a difference not only in their own lives but in the lives of others. It is never too late to shine; never.
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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.
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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
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I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.