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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

By George Eliot
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

By George Eliot
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

By George Eliot
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

By George Eliot
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

By George Eliot
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

By George Eliot
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

By George Eliot
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

By George Eliot
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

By George Eliot
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.

By George Eliot
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

By George Eliot
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

By George Eliot
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

By George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

By George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. Anger

By George Eliot
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're gone.

By George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

By George Eliot
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

By George Eliot
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

By George Eliot
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

By George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

By George Eliot
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

By George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

By George Eliot
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

By George Eliot
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

By George Eliot
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

By George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

By George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

By George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

By George Eliot
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

By George Eliot