Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
George EliotTags: fear
What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?
George EliotWho can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
George EliotMarriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.
George EliotThere is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer—committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
George EliotTags: pain silence sadness sorrow suffering
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
George EliotTags: intellectual-freedom
There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version.
George EliotPeople glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
George EliotEverybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
George EliotTags: knowledge conjecture
It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
George EliotTags: two-sides
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