It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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 ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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 ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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 ELIOTIt is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOTOne must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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 ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT