George EliotLife is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Complete Works Of George Eliot, p.2578, ShandonPress371Life
George EliotWe are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement. 372HopeTime
George EliotOne can say everything best over a meal. ✨ George Eliot (2005). Four Novels of George Eliot, p.119, Wordsworth Editions361Reading
George EliotNo compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. ✨ George Eliot (2013). Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated), p.814, Delphi Classics351Love
George EliotAnd when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. ✨ George Eliot Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2, Lulu.com362Love
George EliotIt's never too late to be who you were meant to be.351Life
George EliotGossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. ✨ 'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2… ▶373Reflection
George EliotMy own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individ… ▶351LifeReading
George EliotThere are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Complete Works Of George Eliot, p.1911, ShandonPress351Reading
George EliotIt's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em. ✨ George Eliot (2005). Four Novels of George… ▶351ReadingThought
George EliotMost 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 … ▶373LoveReading
George EliotThe best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. ✨ George Eliot Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2, Lulu.com341Thought
George EliotHarold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. ✨ George Eliot (1871). Felix Holt, the Radical, p.502374Thought
George EliotGenius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus, p.222, 谷月社352Reading
George EliotThe 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 (2015). Mi… ▶363Life
George EliotDelicious 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 (2013). Delphi Complete Works… ▶363Time
George EliotAffection is the broadest basis of a good life. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus, p.362, 谷月社363LifeLoveReading
George EliotOur instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books … ▶341ReadingTime
George EliotThere was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.… ▶363ReadingSadness
George EliotDoesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid … ▶342Thought
George EliotIt is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound. ✨ George Eliot (1863). Romola, p.25<… ▶342Truth
George EliotIf we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting… ▶375ReadingTime
George EliotSelf-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Daniel D… ▶343HumanityReading
George EliotA woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ✨ George Eliot (1866). Felix Holt: The Radical, p.16343Hope
George EliotA 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.365Love
George EliotBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ✨ George Eliot (2013). Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated), p.2488, Delphi Cl… ▶365HopeSadness
George EliotDon't judge a book by its cover321Reading
George EliotI had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except onese… ▶343Thought
George EliotMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. ✨ George Eliot (2005). Four Novels of George Eliot, p.716, Wordsworth Editions354LoveReading
George EliotAfter all, the true seeing is within. ✨ George Eliot (2013). Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated), p.2220, Delphi Classics376Truth
