If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment. George Eliot More Quotes by George Eliot More Quotes From George Eliot Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor. George Eliot sunshinenaturelabor Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries. George Eliot awfulmysterynight Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, George Eliot starsflowerstrong History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. George Eliot repeatsknowshistory There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs. George Eliot imaginationracemen It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes. George Eliot abusehypocrisyhome How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive. George Eliot strongrootsphilosophy Souls live on in perpetual echoes. George Eliot immortalityechoessoul There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke. George Eliot glassesbirdhands Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us. George Eliot analysisinspirationnames It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. George Eliot intelligenceintellectualmen The bow always strung ... will not do. George Eliot intensitybowsstress The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter. George Eliot latterformerfacts One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it. George Eliot jealousypaineye the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion. George Eliot christianattitudelying I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over. George Eliot answersmindwriting It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand. George Eliot kindlettershands I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions. George Eliot writinginterestingthinking I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury. George Eliot injurytoo-muchliterature bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin. George Eliot amusingliteraturespiritual
