Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
George EliotA bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em.
George EliotThe sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often
subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.
Tag: security complacency
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
George EliotIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings.
It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks
I have never done you injustice. Please remember me,” said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob.
“Why should you say that?” said Will, with irritation. “As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else.
I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.
George EliotI used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
George EliotIn the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
George EliotIn my opinion," said Lydgate, "legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.
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