To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOT -
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOT -
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
GEORGE ELIOT -
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT -
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOT -
There 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 ELIOT -
I 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 -
Religious 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 ELIOT -
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOT -
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 ELIOT