black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Echo Live Perpetual Soul
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
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
Of 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 ELIOT

Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
One can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bst Can Everything Meal One Over Say
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Become Could Late never Person Thought
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT

God Great Justice Kingdome Without Yearning
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Appearances Happiness Little Very
Any 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 ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Confidence Forward Head Hold Joyful Made Victory
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Eliot Quotes