George Eliot

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ↗

— George Eliot

#loneliness #lonely #more #than

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man. ↗

— George Eliot

#new-beginnings #life

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ↗

— George Eliot

#anything #detect #fold #heart #never

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #memory #poverty #work #poverty

Those who trust us educate us. ↗

— George Eliot

#education #trust #education

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ↗

— George Eliot

#sanity #life

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Blameless people are always the most exasperating. ↗

— George Eliot

#society #humor