There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOTAnd, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
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 ELIOTReligious 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 ELIOTSouls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOTRome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT