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Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.


TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
GEORGE ELIOT Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a mar...
GEORGE ELIOT It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot It takes time to build a ca...
GEORGE ELIOT Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into part...
GEORGE ELIOT That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
GEORGE ELIOT The law's made to take care o' raskills.
GEORGE ELIOT There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
GEORGE ELIOT Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT My mind may be American but my heart is British.
T.S. ELIOT When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and i...
GEORGE ELIOT I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
GEORGE ELIOT The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel...
ALEXANDER ELIOT Distracted from distraction by distraction
T.S. ELIOT Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice...
T.S. ELIOT A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, know...
GEORGE ELIOT What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections...
T.S. ELIOT Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
GEORGE ELIOT It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain ...
GEORGE ELIOT There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
GEORGE ELIOT No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
GEORGE ELIOT What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT It is never too late to be what you might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T.S. ELIOT And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...
GEORGE ELIOT I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husband...
GEORGE ELIOT I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do bet...
GEORGE ELIOT Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
GEORGE ELIOT Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
GEORGE ELIOT Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf...
GEORGE ELIOT Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in go...
GEORGE ELIOT Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, brin...
GEORGE ELIOT If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass gr...
GEORGE ELIOT It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by...
GEORGE ELIOT Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
ELIOT PORTER I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
GEORGE ELIOT With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outwor...
GEORGE ELIOT Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls...
GEORGE ELIOT It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads ...
GEORGE ELIOT Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in...
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
GEORGE ELIOT Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
GEORGE ELIOT The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT