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 ELIOTHuman 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 ELIOTThere is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOTMy own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOTSouls live on in perpetual echoes.
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 ELIOTI don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOT