But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
George EliotTags: writing-advice be-terse
We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.
George EliotTags: human-condition
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
George EliotTags: duty
No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.
George EliotTags: self-actualization
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.
George EliotTags: seed passion nourishment
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
George EliotTags: metaphor
I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
George EliotTags: willpower
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
George EliotTags: human-condition
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love .
George EliotThe most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
George EliotTags: prayer
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