black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

George Eliot

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
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
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
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 ELIOT

Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
It 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 ELIOT

Able Being Blind Feel Fine Painful People Sky Something Talk Thing Told
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Decide Stick Think What
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Genius Intolerant Necessarily
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
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
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT

More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Eliot Quotes