Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. – George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. – George Eliot
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. – George Eliot
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. – George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot
