There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. George Eliot More Quotes by George Eliot More Quotes From George Eliot The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion. George Eliot exertion winning success even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises. George Eliot hurt sympathy hands You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution. George Eliot suits men world in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy. George Eliot certain expression sympathy Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. George Eliot taste dresses men The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant. George Eliot intolerance tolerance lasts A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. George Eliot imagine common thinking The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. George Eliot wit stranger I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. George Eliot gymnasiums bows mind trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it. George Eliot employed trouble worry My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them. George Eliot delivering opinion book All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed! George Eliot furniture errors writing There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth. George Eliot something-better eras youth The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself. George Eliot mutual-love soul feelings There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart. George Eliot bits done heart All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy. George Eliot men lying children There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born. George Eliot born scene ease There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done. George Eliot better-yourself done may The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good. George Eliot brother spiritual mother ... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession. George Eliot confession form past
