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Danh ngôn của George Eliot (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
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.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
In every parting there is an image of death.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.