We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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 ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOT“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
GEORGE ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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 ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTDeath is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOT