There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
GEORGE ELIOTVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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 ELIOTAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOTThat 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 ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOTOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTTo manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOTThe darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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 ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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