George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #great #never #our #repent

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ↗

— George Eliot

#exclusion #get #great #great deal #into

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. ↗

— George Eliot

#cases #climb #hatred #inflict #injuries

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. ↗

— George Eliot

#devout #exert #people #themselves #who

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ↗

— George Eliot

#country #deal #explanation #great #great deal

There are many victories worse than a defeat. ↗

— George Eliot

#many #than #victories #worse

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. ↗

— George Eliot

#finest #his #man #profession #success

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ↗

— George Eliot

#beginning #definite #get #ignorance #our

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. ↗

— George Eliot

#him #make #man #mostly #sure

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ↗

— George Eliot

#dead #fingers #handle #happen #make