Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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 ELIOTRome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
GEORGE ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOTOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTThe darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT