Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.
George EliotHow is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.
George EliotTags: love
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
George EliotTags: words books experience literature growth feeling
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
George EliotWe have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
George EliotTags: sanity self-image
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
George EliotOne can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
George EliotTags: new-beginnings introductions
If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.
George EliotTags: art literature george-eliot
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George EliotTags: despair fulfillment hope anguish
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George EliotTags: too-much
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