We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat 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 ELIOTJustice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTOf new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTOne must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOT