Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTLove has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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 ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTOnly in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT