All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Joy”

“Joy is the best of wine.”
“The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.”
“There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.”
“Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.”
“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”
“Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.”

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