3 December 2020 George Eliot Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
3 December 2020 George Eliot The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
3 December 2020 George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
3 December 2020 George Eliot The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
3 December 2020 George Eliot When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
3 December 2020 George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
3 December 2020 George Eliot I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
3 December 2020 George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
3 December 2020 George Eliot There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
3 December 2020 George Eliot I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.
3 December 2020 George Eliot There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
3 December 2020 George Eliot The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
3 December 2020 George Eliot The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
3 December 2020 George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
3 December 2020 George Eliot In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
