George Eliot Quotes
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
— George Eliot 
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
— George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
— George Eliot
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
— George Eliot
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
— George Eliot
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
— George Eliot
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
— George Eliot
Breed is stronger than pasture.
— 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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
— George Eliot
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