How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?
George EliotThere is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It is in the slow, changed life that follows--in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain--in the time when day follows day in dull unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine--it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction.
George EliotMots clés despair sorrow satisfaction
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George EliotMots clés experience
Men, like planets, have both a visible and invisible history.
George EliotMots clés history-of-life
Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.
George EliotHe has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James.
George EliotWhere lies the power, there let the blame lie too."
Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright
The coming pest with border fortresses,
Or catch your carp with subtle argument.
All force is twain in one: cause is not cause
Unless effect be there; and action's self
Must needs contain a passive. So command
Exists but with obedience.
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
George EliotI beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
George EliotNot at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.
Mots clés humor importance liked
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