George Eliot

A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. ↗

— George Eliot

#rome #want #life

scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. ↗

— George Eliot

#intelligence #intelligence

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world. ↗

— George Eliot

#home

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him. ↗

— George Eliot

#history #myopia #perspective #reading #life

No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another. ↗

— George Eliot

#imagination

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. ↗

— George Eliot

#procrastination #self-discipline #procrastination

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#jealousy