George Eliot ( 10 of 69 )
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make read more
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its read more
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all read more
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
