To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOTWe have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
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 ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTIn travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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 ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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 ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOT