If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.
George EliotThere's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
George EliotWe are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
George EliotTags: human-condition
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
George EliotTags: from-the-mill-on-the-floss it-was-how-i-used-to-see-myself
Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it... There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.
George EliotThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George EliotThe progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
George EliotTags: philosophy humanism individual amelioration
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
George EliotBut how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbors. We judge from our own desires, and our neighbors themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
George EliotFor the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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