Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.
George Eliot
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O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made bette...
GEORGE ELIOT O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUD I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people w...
TONY ROBBINS Who set the standard for us to live by? It is the traditions of the dead that will forever weigh upo...
ANDONI GARCIA Who set the standards for us to live by? It's the standards of the dead that will for ever weigh upo...
ANDONI GARCIA My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with ot...
A. S. BYATT Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up thei...
ALDOUS HUXLEY They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind; In those whom they have blessed, they live a ...
HUGH ROBERT ORR I had to do a history project with a friend who was in the choir and we decided to meet up in the mu...
ANTONIO WITHERSPOON How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERS ... It's like (Centennial) went for a little rest, and then said, 'Oh, we better shoot the ball agai...
DALE POFFENROTH Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Wars are made by those who are old enough to know better, and fought by those who are not.
RAIN BOJANGLES In some cases, this may actually make the difference. It has an impact on those people who aren't ri...
JACK LEVIN George loved people. He didn't care what they did. He was always fascinated by their minds.
GINGER DAVIS The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who ...
SYLVIA PLATH Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to...
ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, l...
ROSALYN SUSSMAN YALOW My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Those who labor with their minds, rule; those who labor with their bodies, are ruled
PROVERB Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.
GREG GAZIN All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses
of their minds awake...
T.E. LAWRENCE All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE Just by going out and singing our language, it has really attracted a lot of kids to come and join t...
KATHY SIERRA Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake ...
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why i...
SAMUEL MORSE The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him:...
PETER KREEFT We will be the voice of the people, who right now have no voice in how our city is governed. I encou...
FRANK SCARAFILE For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of th...
HOWARD JACOBSON I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squa...
MARGARET WEIS One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of thi...
RICHARD NELSON BOLLES All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake ...
THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (OF ARABIA) All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake ...
T. E. LAWRENCE All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE I think Microsoft would like to wait until after the election, and maybe if George W. Bush wins, the...
GREG VALLIERE Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.
GURU GOBIND SINGH The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his off...
JOHN BURNS It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
GEORGE ELIOT Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He do...
IRISH BLESSINGS I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occa...
HOWARD JACOBSON Those who don't believe in you won't change their minds when you succeed
DAVID BROWN I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.
BILLY BUSH But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...
FRANK HERBERT In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh . . . ha, ha. I didn't catch th...
RICK RIORDAN Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. F...
WILLIAMS CHILDS In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these ...
ROBERT GREENE Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who look sober , always have something unthinkably conspicuous in their minds going on
AJAY PRAKASH BHATE And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE May all those who stop to contemplate the statue be encouraged to live their daily work in the spiri...
POPE BENEDICT XVI But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted m...
ALFRED TENNYSON George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's te...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois.
FRANCOIS The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident m...
ROBERT H. THOULESS All pleasures and supreme ecstasy, O my Beloved, come to those who sew the Jewel of the Lord into th...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world...
RICHARD A. NELSON Have a shower, Si," George urged. "Start the day refreshed. Maybe style your hair a little. It would...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dea...
C.S. LEWIS I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
THOMAS PAINE I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Laws of Sex; Those not used to being naked among their friends or those not used to being in the pre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop o...
JOHN FERGUSON I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the...
EDWARD EVERETT Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who ch...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
WILLIAM SAFIRE It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my c...
BARBARA BUSH You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, w...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV I don't know what the next Pope is going to be like. I do know this, the Catholic laity all over the...
ANDREW GREELEY I know of no better place to live in, and till the millennium comes, Stamford cannot be made a bette...
JAMES SMITH Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
J.K. ROWLING Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwhole...
J.R. MILLER The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take...
DAN LIPINSKI In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, th...
FRED THOMPSON Who could escape destruction, when he provokes to anger those ,men , by whom the fire was made to co...
GURU NANAK The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER Those who deceitfully believe they are free are the ones that are truly being tyrannized. The truth ...
ANDONI GARCIA Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
PLATO There is no cure for sure for those who ensure to endure of their minds’ impure.
ANUJ SOMANY The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t...
TERRY PRATCHETT Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high,...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's useful to find out things like, 'Oh, who are those people who live two doors down from us?
JEFF NOLAN Research has consistently shown that those who succeed tend to make decisions
rapidly and are slow t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS They may seizeOn the white wonder of dear Juliet’s handAnd steal immortal blessing from her lips,W...
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GEORGE ELIOT Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
GEORGE ELIOT Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think t...
GEORGE ELIOT What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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 Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOT What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen ea...
GEORGE ELIOT Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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 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 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 Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, know...
GEORGE 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 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 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 It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine o...
GEORGE ELIOT Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
GEORGE ELIOT It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are cer...
GEORGE ELIOT Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
GEORGE ELIOT A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
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GEORGE ELIOT There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an ...
GEORGE ELIOT Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
GEORGE ELIOT Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
GEORGE ELIOT It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear decei...
GEORGE ELIOT There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but...
GEORGE ELIOT Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
GEORGE ELIOT Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...
GEORGE ELIOT You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
GEORGE ELIOT A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
GEORGE ELIOT Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
GEORGE ELIOT The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which w...
GEORGE ELIOT In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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GEORGE ELIOT Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly r...
GEORGE ELIOT A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love o...
GEORGE ELIOT Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make th...
GEORGE ELIOT There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength ...
GEORGE ELIOT To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends...
GEORGE ELIOT How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living compan...
GEORGE ELIOT No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
GEORGE ELIOT The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
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GEORGE ELIOT What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great cal...
GEORGE ELIOT The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and wome...
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
GEORGE ELIOT Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own dep...
GEORGE ELIOT Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human ...
GEORGE ELIOT The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOT A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard ev...
GEORGE ELIOT Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear ...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...
GEORGE ELIOT 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins w...
GEORGE ELIOT Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-disconte...
GEORGE ELIOT One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
GEORGE ELIOT When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation a...
GEORGE ELIOT Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
GEORGE ELIOT The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...
GEORGE ELIOT Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fol...
GEORGE ELIOT There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...
GEORGE ELIOT The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoi...
GEORGE ELIOT The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
GEORGE ELIOT Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, wh...
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while w...
GEORGE ELIOT For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a wil...
GEORGE ELIOT There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and cli...
GEORGE ELIOT The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so i...
GEORGE ELIOT Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
GEORGE ELIOT But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not...
GEORGE ELIOT The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a re...
GEORGE ELIOT To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue...
GEORGE ELIOT But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
GEORGE ELIOT Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
GEORGE ELIOT She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and ma...
GEORGE ELIOT Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is bette...
GEORGE ELIOT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
GEORGE ELIOT Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go...
GEORGE ELIOT To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any...
GEORGE ELIOT Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
GEORGE ELIOT He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were...
GEORGE ELIOT Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
GEORGE ELIOT Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
GEORGE ELIOT The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT Breed is stronger than pasture.
GEORGE ELIOT Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
GEORGE ELIOT We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: th...
GEORGE ELIOT Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires ...
GEORGE ELIOT We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same in...
GEORGE ELIOT What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
GEORGE ELIOT In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
GEORGE ELIOT My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
GEORGE ELIOT Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputat...
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is...
GEORGE ELIOT Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
GEORGE ELIOT Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fow...
GEORGE ELIOT The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our eg...
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of...
GEORGE ELIOT Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
GEORGE ELIOT Hear Everything and judge for yourself
GEORGE ELIOT Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while...
GEORGE ELIOT Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
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