No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot More Quotes by George Eliot More Quotes From George Eliot 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 morning love book The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. George Eliot imagination memories travel It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather. George Eliot cold impossible weather What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot being-alone lonely loneliness The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. George Eliot compunction literature life ... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. George Eliot defiance one-thing rebellion 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-birthday time funny 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 crowns spiritual men Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. George Eliot sorrow joy past 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 inspirational friendship life 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 yellow lying thinking 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 ostracism men looks 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 perception mind men Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. George Eliot invisible mind may 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 modern states littles Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. George Eliot good-intentions inspirational life History repeats itself. George Eliot wisdom wise history 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 teaching mother children 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-day love life Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking. George Eliot blow bird wind
