All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Earth”

“Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty â€” it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.”
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.”
“She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel â€“ that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.”
“The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.”
“We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.”
“In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.”
“Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.”
“It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.”
“Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.”
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?”

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