George Eliot

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear. ↗

— George Eliot

#speech #life

Men, like planets, have both a visible and invisible history. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. ↗

— George Eliot

#family

No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ↗

— George Eliot

#morality #experience

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours. ↗

— George Eliot

#silence #love

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. ↗

— George Eliot

#influences #life #thoughts #life

I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. ↗

— George Eliot

#love #education

A 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 Eliot

#novelty #change