It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you. George Eliot More Quotes by George Eliot More Quotes From George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. George Eliot liferealitypast 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 morninglovebook The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. George Eliot imaginationmemoriestravel It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather. George Eliot coldimpossibleweather What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot being-alonelonelyloneliness The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. George Eliot compunctionliteraturelife ... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. George Eliot defianceone-thingrebellion The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. George Eliot happy-birthdaytimefunny What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown. George Eliot crownsspiritualmen Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. George Eliot sorrowjoypast 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 inspirationalfriendshiplife People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy. George Eliot yellowlyingthinking You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. George Eliot ostracismmenlooks Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood. George Eliot perceptionmindmen Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. George Eliot invisiblemindmay It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue. George Eliot modernstateslittles Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. George Eliot good-intentionsinspirationallife History repeats itself. George Eliot wisdomwisehistory Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary. George Eliot teachingmotherchildren I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. George Eliot valentines-daylovelife
