In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOTIn bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTJustice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTShe was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT