Delicious 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 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 ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
GEORGE ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOTWe want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOTTrouble’s made us kin.
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 ELIOTIt is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
GEORGE ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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 ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTThe right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT