What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.


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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
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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
GEORGE ELIOT