George Eliot Quotes
Best 10 Silas Marner Quotes by George Eliot
Silas Marner Quotes
“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”
“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.”
“Everything comes to light, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.”
“Love once, love always.”
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
“Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”
“The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.”
“The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.”
“There's nothing that kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.”
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