There 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 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 ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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 ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTMuch of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT