It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George EliotTags: inspirational misattributed source-unknown
The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
["Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885.]
Tags: clergy irresponsible liars
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
George EliotTags: first-sentence
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
George EliotTags: human-nature funny
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George EliotTags: inspirational
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
George EliotTags: insult
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
George EliotDo we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?
George EliotThe limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centering in some long-recognisable deed.
George EliotIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George EliotTags: silence
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