George EliotA collection of 63 posts

Jealousy

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion ...

Jealousy

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would det...

Hope

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Home

I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to make...

History

The happiest women like the happiest nations have no history.

History

Rome – the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere s...

Happiness

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be press...

Happiness

Whether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to...

Great

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Great

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.