The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot

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.
George Eliot

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

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George Eliot

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot

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.
George Eliot

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

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

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot