Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms character is destiny.
More Quotes from George Eliot:
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.George Eliot
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
George Eliot
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee
George Eliot
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