Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOTThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTI like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTLife is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOT