"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections." ~George Eliot
"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Affection is the broadest basis of a good life." ~George Eliot
“After all, the true seeing is within.” ~George Eliot
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous” ~George Eliot on Prophecy
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." ~George Eliot
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms." ~George Eliot
"Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!" ~George Eliot
"Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another." ~George Eliot
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." ~George Eliot
"Breed is stronger than pasture." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity” ~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
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure." ~George Eliot
“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.. Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.” ~George Eliot, Adam Bebe from Everyman's Library
"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence." ~George Eliot
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"I've been a great deal happier ... since I have given up thinking about what is easy and pleasant, and being discontented because I couldn't have my own will. Our life is determined for us—and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"If you feel no love, sit still." ~George Eliot
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), British writer
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them." ~George Eliot
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees." ~George Eliot
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." ~George Eliot
“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, first published on this day in 1860 from Everyman's Library
"Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.' ~George Eliot
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away." ~George Eliot
"One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." ~George Eliot
"Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in." ~ George Eliot (1819-1880)
“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood. Doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot, but it is gone for ever from our imagination, and we can only BELIEVE in the joy of childhood.” ~George Eliot, Adam Bede
"The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." ~George Eliot
"The reward of one duty is the power o fulfill another." ~George Eliot
"Those who trust us educate us." ~George Eliot on Education
"Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs." ~George Eliot
"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment." ~George Eliot
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other." ~George Eliot
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" ~George Eliot
"Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?" -George Eliot
"You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
VERSE
"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 (1819-1880)
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"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" ~George Eliot
"Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?" -George Eliot
"You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
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VERSE
"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 (1819-1880)
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