George Eliot

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for. ↗

— George Eliot

#compassion #life

What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly? ↗

— George Eliot

#mediocrity #ministry #life

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ↗

— George Eliot

#duty #fulfill #power #reward

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories ↗

— George Eliot

#memories #soul #soulmates #love

Everything is all one - that is the beginning and end with you. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance. ↗

— George Eliot

#faith

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side. ↗

— George Eliot

#self-justification #anger

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. ↗

— George Eliot

#eros #order #life