But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!
George EliotTags: procrastination
He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.
George EliotAfter all, the true seeing is within.
George EliotThere are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
George EliotTags: self-collision
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
George EliotWe all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
George EliotTags: experience expectation motive
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George EliotTags: jealousy envy neighborhood
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
George EliotTags: human-behavior
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
George EliotTags: children
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
George EliotTags: middlemarch
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