When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. – George Eliot
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. – George Eliot
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. – George Eliot
There are many victories worse than a defeat. – George Eliot
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot
We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. – George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot
In every parting there is an image of death. – George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. – 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. – George Eliot
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. – George Eliot
