There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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 ELIOTDelicious 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 ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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 ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTIn 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 ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTExamining 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 ELIOTDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT