black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

George Eliot

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOT

Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOT

Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
GEORGE ELIOT

Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chock Love Men Other Thought
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told
The 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

Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
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 ELIOT

Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOT

Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Deoenf Interpretation Key Know Meaning
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Eliot Quotes