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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
— George Eliot
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
— George Eliot
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
— George Eliot
When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributesone is conscious of her presence. — George Eliot
As leopard feels at home with leopard.
— George Eliot
The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.
— George Eliot
Happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.
— George Eliot
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
— George Eliot
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
— George Eliot
But womanly, I hope, said Mrs. Garth, half suspecting that Mrs. Casaubon might not hold the true principle of subordination.
— George Eliot
Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good.
— George Eliot
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
— George Eliot
We judge other according to results; how else?not knowing the process by which results are arrived at. — George Eliot
Those who trust us educate us.
— George Eliot
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
— George Eliot
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
— George Eliot
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
— George Eliot
But is it what we love, or how we love,That makes true good? — George Eliot
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
— George Eliot
Inconsistencies," answered Imlac, "cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true." - Rasselas.
— George Eliot
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
— George Eliot
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
— George Eliot
Justice is like the kingdom of Godit is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. — George Eliot
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
— George Eliot
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
— George Eliot
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
— George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
— George Eliot
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
— George Eliot
Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
— George Eliot
people who have pleasant homes get indoor enjoyments that they would never think of but for the rain. If
— George Eliot
It is not true that love makes all things easy, it makes us chose things that are difficult.
— George Eliot
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
— George Eliot
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
— George Eliot
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
— George Eliot
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
— George Eliot
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
— George Eliot
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
— George Eliot
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
— George Eliot
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable
— George Eliot
when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man - they only want a vote.
— George Eliot
While the heart beats, bruise itit is your only opportunity — George Eliot
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
— George Eliot
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
— George Eliot
The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.
— George Eliot
I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.
— George Eliot
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
— George Eliot
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
— George Eliot
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
— George Eliot
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
— George Eliot
It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
— George Eliot
A woman mixed of such fine elementsThat were all virtue and religion dead
She'd make them newly, being what she was. — George Eliot
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
— George Eliot
People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.
— George Eliot
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
— George Eliot
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
— George Eliot
neighbourly kindness is among those things that are the more precious the older they get. Indeed,
— George Eliot
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
— George Eliot
Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.
— George Eliot
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
— George Eliot
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
— George Eliot
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
— George Eliot
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
— George Eliot
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
— George Eliot
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
— George Eliot
as I hardly know where I am, with what
— George Eliot
It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.
— George Eliot
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
— George Eliot
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
— George Eliot