Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
George EliotTags: right
People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.
George EliotThe happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George EliotIf we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.
George EliotSo deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
George EliotWe are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
George EliotA woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George EliotTags: marriage submission
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George EliotThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George EliotMr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying.
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