George Eliot

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

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired. ↗

— George Eliot

#education #education

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

— George Eliot

#mediocrity #ministry #life

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

— George Eliot

#life

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

— George Eliot

#duty #fulfill #power #reward

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

— George Eliot

#life

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me. Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs. ↗

— George Eliot

#humor

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #life