" Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. "

George Eliot, Middlemarch English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. "

George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861) English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. "

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9 English novelist (1819 – 1880)

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

George Eliot, Middlemarch English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "

George Eliot, Middlemarch English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" It is never too late to become what we might have been. "

George Eliot, 1819-1880 English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. "

George Eliot, “Middlemarch”, Book I, ch.1 English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" It is never too late to be what you might have been. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will. "

George Eliot, Romola English novelist (1819 – 1880)

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

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. "

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860 English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Wear a smile and have friends,
wear a scowl and have wrinkles. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

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