George Eliot

He loved also to think, "I did it!" And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own. ↗

— George Eliot

#dominion #love

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

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

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

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

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong. ↗

— George Eliot

#writing-advice #life

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. ↗

— George Eliot

#dead #forgotten #never #our #them

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest. ↗

— George Eliot

#everyday-life #life

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