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A MOMENT EACH DAY WITH 
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GEORGE ELIOT AT 3O. 
 
COPYRIGHT, 1502, BV ELLA ADAMS MOORE 
 
C! A«W» «-VXr No. 
 
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3lanuarj> 
 
 HE time is great, what 
 times are little? To the 
 sentinel that hour is regal 
 when he mounts on 
 guard. — Span ish Gypsy, 
 
 2. It's well we should 
 feel as life's a reckoning 
 we can't make twice over; there's no real 
 making amends in this world, any more 
 nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by 
 doing your addition right. — Adam "Bede, 
 
 3. The golden moments in the stream 
 of life rush past us, and we see nothing 
 but sand; the angels come to visit us, 
 and we only know them when they are 
 ^on^,— Janet's Repentance, 
 
 4. Self-confidence is apt to address 
 itself to an imaginary dullness in others. 
 — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 5. Wise books for half the truths they 
 hold are honored tombs. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 6. Nettle seed needs no digging. — 
 
 Middlemarch, 
 
 7. Neighborly kindness is among 
 those things that are the more precious 
 the older they get. — Adam Bede. 
 
3lanuarj> 
 
 LL preciousness to mortal 
 hearts is guarded by a 
 fear. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 9. Our guides, we pre- 
 tend, must be sinless; as 
 if those were not often 
 the best teachers who 
 
 only yesterday got corrected for their 
 
 mistakes. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 10. Our daily familiar life is but a 
 hiding of ourselves from each other be- 
 hind a screen of trivial words and deeds. 
 
 — Janet's Repentance, 
 
 11. The happiest women, like the 
 happiest nations, have no history. — The 
 Mill on the Floss, 
 
 12. Commonness is its own security. 
 — Armgart, 
 
 13. You must learn to deal with odd 
 and even in life, as well as in figures. — 
 Adam Bede, 
 
 14. The higher life must be a region 
 in which the affections are clad with 
 knowledge. — T)aniel T)eronda, 
 
3Ianuarp 
 
 |HERE are possibilities 
 which our minds shrink 
 from too completely for 
 us to fear them. — The Mill 
 on the Floss. 
 
 i6. People say what they 
 like to say, not what they 
 have chapter and verse for. — Middlemarch, 
 
 17. The gods have a curse for him 
 who willingly tells another the wrong 
 road. — Daniel Deronda. 
 
 18. We are poor plants buoyed up 
 by the air vessels of our own conceit. — 
 Amos Barton, 
 
 19. The charm of fond words van- 
 ishes when one repeats them to the 
 mdiiitr^DX.—Adam "Bede, 
 
 20. People who seem to enjoy their 
 ill-temper have a way of keeping it in a 
 fine condition by inflicting privations 
 on themselves. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 2 1 . Nature, that great tragic dramatist, 
 knits us together by bone and muscle, 
 and divides us by the subtler web of our 
 brains; blends yearning and repulsion, 
 and ties us by our heart-strings to the 
 beings that jar us at every movement. — 
 Adam Bede, 
 
3Ianuarj> 
 
 NE must be poor to know 
 the luxury of giving. — 
 Middlemarch. 
 
 23. I will to make life 
 less bitter for a few with- 
 in my reach. — Felix Holt, 
 
 24. That is a deep and 
 wide saying, that no miracles can be 
 wrought without faith — without the 
 worker's faith in himself, as well as the 
 recipient's faith in him. — yimos Barton. 
 
 25. Who shall put his finger on the 
 work of justice and say, **It is there!" 
 Justice is like the kingdom of God— it is 
 not without us as a fact, it is within us 
 as a great yearning. — Romola, 
 
 26. A pig may poke his nose into a 
 trough and think o' nothing outside it; 
 but if youVe got a man's heart and soul 
 in you, you can't be easy a-making your 
 bed an' leaving the rest to lie on stones. 
 — Adam "Bede, 
 
 27. As soon as men found out they 
 had more brains than oxen, they set the 
 oxen to draw for them. — T(oinola, 
 
 28. Perhaps the wind wails so in 
 winter for the summers dead, and all 
 sad sounds are nature's funeral cries for 
 what has been and is not. — Spanish Gypsy. 
 
3(anuatp 
 
 HE Highest speaks 
 
 through all our people's 
 voice, 
 
 Custom, tradition, and 
 old sanctities; 
 Or he reveals himself by 
 new decrees 
 Of inward certitude. — 
 Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 30. Do we not all agree to call rapid 
 thought and noble impulse by the name 
 of inspiration? After our subtlest analy- 
 sis of the mental process, we must still 
 say that our highest thoughts and our 
 best deeds are all given to u^.—Adam 
 'Bede, 
 
 31. Our mental business is carried 
 on much in the same way as the business 
 of the state: a great deal of hard work is 
 done by agents who are not acknowl- 
 edged.— ^<i<3;w Bede, 
 
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 iFebruarp 
 
 |0 man can begin to mould 
 himself on a faith or an 
 idea without rising to a 
 higher order of experi- 
 ence. — Janet* s Repentance, 
 
 2. It's always good to 
 know, if only in passing, 
 a charming human being — it refreshes 
 one like flowers, and birds and clear 
 brooks. — Life and Letters, 
 
 3. At the last moment there is always 
 a reason not existing before^— namely, the 
 impossibility of further vacillation. — Felix 
 Holt, 
 
 4. Love is natural; but surely pity and 
 faithfulness and memory are natural too. 
 — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 5. The beings closest to us, whether 
 in love or hate, are virtually often our 
 interpreters of the world. — T>aniel De- 
 ronda, 
 
 6. Deep, unspeakable suffering may 
 well be called a baptism, a regeneration, 
 the initiation into a new state. — Adam 
 'Bede, 
 
 7. The exhaustion consequent on vio- 
 lent emotion is apt to bring a dreamy 
 disbelief in the reality of its cause. — 
 ^omola. 
 
iTeftruarp 
 
 HAVE always been think- 
 ing of the different ways 
 in which Cristianity is 
 taught, and whenever I 
 find one way that makes 
 it a wider blessing than 
 any other, I cling to that 
 as the truest. — Middlemarch. 
 
 9. Receptiveness is a rare and massive 
 power, like fortitude. — Daniel T)eronda, 
 
 10. All eyes can see when light flows 
 out from God. — The Legend of JubaL 
 
 11. The yoke a man creates for him- 
 self by wrong-doing will breed hate in 
 the kindliest nature.— aS/'/^j Marner, 
 
 12. What we call our despair, is often 
 the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — 
 
 Middlemarch, 
 
 13. Old maids* husbands are al'ys 
 well managed. If you was a wife you'd 
 be as foolish as your betters, belike. — 
 Amos 'Barton, 
 
 14. The repentance which cuts off 
 all moorings to evil, demands something 
 more than selfish fear. — Romola, 
 
iFebruarp 
 
 |OULS live on in perpetual 
 echoes. — Middlemarch, 
 
 i6. Better a wrong will 
 than a wavering; better a 
 steadfast enemy than an 
 uncertain friend; better a 
 false belief than no belief 
 at all. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 17. Thought 
 
 Has joys apart, even in blackest 
 
 woe, 
 And seizing some fine thread 
 
 of verity 
 Knows momentary godhead. 
 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 18. It^s allays the way wi' them meek- 
 faced people; you may's well pelt a bag 
 o' feathers as talk to ^tTsi,—Adam Bede, 
 
 19. To be right in great memorable 
 moments, is perhaps the thing we need 
 most desire for ourselves. — Felix Holt, 
 
 20. The fuller nature desires to be an 
 agent, to create, and not merely to look 
 on. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 21. The terror of being judged 
 sharpens the m^vnoxy. ^Middlemarch. 
 
jFebruatp 
 
 [HAT prejudices will hold 
 out against helplessness 
 and broken prattle? — 
 Mr. GilfiVs Love Story, 
 
 23. Oh the anguish of 
 that thought that we can 
 never atone to our dead 
 
 for the stinted affection we gave them. — 
 
 Amos Barton, 
 
 24. Royal deeds may make long 
 destinies for multitudes.— iS^^«/j A Gypsy, 
 
 25. Time is like the sibylline leaves, 
 getting more precious the less there 
 remains of it. — Life and Letters. 
 
 26. Life itself may not express us all, 
 may leave the worst and the best too, 
 like tunes in mechanism never awaked. 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 27. My life shall grow like trees both 
 tall and fair that rise and spread and 
 bloom toward fuller fruit each year. — 
 The Legend of Jubal, 
 
 28. Cleanliness is sometimes a pain- 
 ful good, as anyone can vouch who has 
 had his face washed the wrong way, by 
 a pitiless hand with a gold ring on the 
 third finger.— Mr. GilfiVs Love Story, 
 
ACH woman creates in 
 her own likeness the love- 
 tokens that are offered 
 to her. — Romola. 
 
 2. You make but a poor 
 trap to catch luck if you 
 go and bait it by wicked- 
 ness. — Adam Bede, 
 
 3. Reverent love has a politeness of 
 its own. — Silas Marner, 
 
 4. Life is not rounded in an epigram, 
 and saying aught, we leave a world 
 unsaid . — A rmgart, 
 
 5. Our dead are never dead to us until 
 we have forgotten xh^m.—Adam 'Bede. 
 
 6. Hard speech between those who 
 have loved is hideous in the memory, 
 like the sight of greatness and beauty 
 sunk into vice and rags. — Romola. 
 
 7. We have all of us considerable 
 regard for our past self, and are not fond 
 of casting reflections on that respected 
 individual by a total negation of his 
 opinions. — Janet's Repentance. 
 
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 DEAS are often poor 
 ghosts; our sun-filled 
 eyes cannot discern them; 
 they pass athwart us in 
 thin vapor, and cannot 
 make themselves felt. — 
 Janet* s "Repentance, 
 
 9. Affection is the broadest basis of 
 good in life. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 10. There's a sort of wrong that can 
 never be made up for. — Adam *Bede, 
 
 11. The truth is the hardest missile 
 one can be pelted with. — Middlemarch, 
 
 12. We have all our secret sins; and 
 if we knew ourselves, we should not 
 judge each other harshly. — Mr, Gilfirs 
 Love Story, 
 
 13. So our lives glide on: the river 
 ends, we don't know where, and the sea 
 begins, and then there is no jumping 
 ashore. — Felix Holt, 
 
 14. No good is certain, but the stead- 
 fast mind, the individual will to seek the 
 good. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
E reap what we sow, but 
 nature has love over and 
 above that justice, and 
 gives us shadow and blos- 
 som and fruit, that spring 
 from no planting of ours. 
 — Janet's T^epentance, 
 
 i6. It takes very little water to make 
 a perfect pool for a tiny fish. — 'Rpmola, 
 
 17. Ignorant power comes in the end 
 to the same thing as wicked power; it 
 makes misery. — Felix Holt, 
 
 18. A good solid bit o' work lasts; if 
 it's only laying a floor down, somebody's 
 the better for it being done well, besides 
 the man as does it,— Adam Bede, 
 
 19. A woman should produce the 
 effect of exquisite music. — Middlemarch, 
 
 20. For me 'tis what I love determines 
 how I love. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 21. It is one thing to see your road, 
 another to cut it. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
T is not true that love 
 makes all things easy: it 
 makes us choose what is 
 difficult.— i^^//;^ Holt, 
 
 23. There is a chill air 
 surrounding those who 
 are down in the world, 
 and the people are glad to get away from 
 them, as from a cold room. — The Mill on 
 the Floss, 
 
 24. When we desire eagerly to find 
 something, we are apt to search in hope- 
 less places. — Adam 'Bede, 
 
 25. Net the large fish and you are 
 sure to have the small fry. — Amos Barton, 
 
 26. Conscience is harder than our 
 enemies, knows more, accuses with more 
 nicety. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 27. Perfect love has a breath of poetry 
 which can exalt the relations of the least- 
 instructed human beings.— aS/As^j Marner, 
 
 28. There is no hopelessness so sad 
 as that of early youth, when the soul is 
 made up of wants, and has no long mem- 
 ories, no super-added life in the life of 
 others.— 37^^ Mill on the Floss. 
 
:aprfl 
 
 HERE'S allays two /pin- 
 ions; there's the 'pinion 
 a man has of himsen, 
 and there's the 'pinion 
 other folks have on him. 
 There'd be two 'pinions 
 about a cracked bell, if 
 the bell could hear itself. — Silas Marner, 
 
 9. We hand folks over to God's 
 mercy, and show none ourselves. — Adam 
 Bede. 
 
 10. Among all the many kinds of first 
 love, that which begins in childish com- 
 panionship is the strongest and most en- 
 during. — Mr, Gilfirs Love Story, 
 
 11. A passionate hate, as well as a pas- 
 sionate love, demands some leisure and 
 mental freedom. — Janet's Repentance, 
 
 12. If you are to rule men, you must 
 rule them through their own ideas. — 
 Daniel T)eronda, 
 
 13. You must love your work, and not 
 be always looking over the edge of it, want- 
 ing your play to begin. — Middlemarch, 
 
 14. The best fire doesna flare up the 
 soonest. — Adam Bede, 
 
[HEN death, the great re- 
 conciler, has come, it is 
 never our tenderness that 
 we repent of, but our se- 
 verity. — Adam Bede, 
 
 i6. No great deed is 
 done by falterers who ask 
 for certainty. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 17. People who live at a distance are 
 naturally less faulty than those immedi- 
 ately under our own eyes. — The Mill on 
 the Floss. 
 
 18. It is seldom that the miserable can 
 help regarding their misery as a wrong 
 inflicted by those who are less miserable. 
 — Silas Marner, 
 
 19. Yes, yes; paternosters may shave 
 clean, but they must be said over a good 
 razor. — Romola, 
 
 20. Truth has rough flavors if we bite 
 it through. — Armgart, 
 
 21. We can hardly learn humility 
 and tenderness enough except by suffer- 
 ing.— Afr. GilfiVs Love Story, 
 
:aprfi 
 
 |T IS a sad weakness in us, 
 after all, that the thought 
 of a man's death hallows 
 him anew to us; as if Hfe 
 were not sacred too. — 
 Janet's 'Repentance, 
 
 23. Perfect scheming 
 demands omniscience. — T(omola, 
 
 24. It's poor foolishness to run down 
 your enemies. — Adam Bede, 
 
 25. The stronger thing is not to give 
 up power, but to use it w^W..— Middle- 
 march. 
 
 26. The greatest gift the hero leaves 
 his race, is to have been a hero. — Spanish 
 Gypsy. 
 
 27. Love gives insight, and insight 
 often gives foreboding. — The Mill on the 
 Floss, 
 
 28. We are all of us born in moral 
 stupidity, taking the world as an udder 
 to feed our supreme selves. — Middle- 
 march, 
 
aprtt 
 
 SHEPPERTON CHURCH. 
 
 *Bede, 
 
 HERE is much pain that 
 is quite noiseless. — Felix 
 Holu 
 
 30. If you could make a 
 pudding wi^ thinking o' 
 the batter, it 'ud be easy 
 getting dinner,— Adam 
 
pable.- 
 
 F there is an angel who 
 records the sorrows of 
 men as well as their sins, 
 he knows how many and 
 deep are the sorrows that 
 spring from false ideas 
 for which no man is cul- 
 Silas Marner, 
 
 2. The delicate-tendrilled plant must 
 have something to cling to. — Mr, GilfiVs 
 Love Story. 
 
 3. Iteration, like friction, is likely to 
 generate heat instead of progress. — The 
 Mill on the Floss, 
 
 4. That is the great advantage of 
 dialogue on horseback; it can be merged 
 any minute into a trot or a canter, and 
 one might have escaped from Socrates 
 himself in the saddle. — Adam Bede, 
 
 5. I think cheerfulness is a fortune 
 in itself. — Daniel Deronda. 
 
 6. A man's own safety is a god that 
 sometimes makes very grim demands. — 
 Romola, 
 
 7. Don't let us rejoice in punishment, 
 even when the hand of God alone inflicts 
 it. — Janet's Repentance, 
 
[E may strive and scrat and 
 fend, but it's little we can 
 do arter all — the big things 
 come and go wi' no striv- 
 ing o' our'n. — Silas 
 Marner. 
 
 9. The running brook is 
 na athirst for th* rain. — Adam Bede, 
 
 10. Whenever an artist has been able 
 to say, **I came, I saw, I conquered,'' it 
 has been at the end of patient practice. 
 — T)aniel T)eronda, 
 
 11. One of the tortures of jealousy is, 
 that it can never turn away its eyes from 
 the thing that pains it.— Mr. Gtlfil's Love 
 Story, 
 
 12. I believe that people are almost 
 always better than their neighbors think 
 they are. — Middlemarch, 
 
 13. I choose to walk high with sub- 
 limer dread rather than crawl in safety. 
 — ArmgarU 
 
 14. The tale of the Divine Pity was 
 never yet believed from lips that were not 
 felt to be moved by human pity. — Janet's 
 Repentance, 
 
INGLED seed must bear 
 JJ a mingled crop. — The 
 Mill on the Floss, 
 
 i6. So much of our 
 early gladness vanishes 
 utterly from our mem- 
 ory: but the first glad 
 moments in our first love is a vision 
 which returns to us to the \2i^\.,—Adam 
 *Bede, 
 
 17. Love comes to cancel all ancestral 
 hate, subdues all heritage, proves that in 
 mankind union is deeper than division. 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 18. There is no killing the suspicion 
 that deceit has once begotten.— !??omo/^. 
 
 19. What do we live for, if it is not 
 to make life less difficult to each other ? 
 — Middlemarch, 
 
 20. Man thinks brutes have no wis- 
 dom, since they know not his. — Spanish 
 Gypsy, 
 
 21. There's things to put up wi' in 
 ivery place, an' you may change an' 
 change an' not better yourself when all 's 
 said an' done. — Janet's ^Repentance, 
 
T'S easy finding reasons 
 why other folks should be 
 patient. — Adam Bede, 
 
 23. In the love of a 
 brave and faithful man 
 there is always a strain of 
 maternal tenderness. — 
 Mr, GilfiVs Love Story, 
 
 24. • The effective accident is but the 
 touch of fire where there is oil and tow. 
 — Middlemarch, 
 
 25. It^s like the night and the morn- 
 ing, and the sleeping and the waking, and 
 the rain and the harvest — one goes and 
 the other comes and we know nothing 
 how nor where. — Silas Marner, 
 
 26. I hate your epigrams and pointed 
 saws whose narrow truth is but broad 
 falsity. — Armgart, 
 
 27. Experience differs for different 
 people. We don't all wince at the same 
 things. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 28. Fighting for dear life men choose 
 their swords for cutting only, not for 
 ornament. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
LWAYS there is seed be- 
 ing sown silently and 
 unseen, and every where 
 there come sweet flowers 
 without our foresight or 
 labor. — Janet's "R^epent- 
 ance. 
 
 30. In old days there were angels 
 who came and took men by the hand 
 and led them away from the city of 
 destruction. We see no white-winged 
 angels now. But yet men are led away 
 from threatening destruction: a hand is 
 put into theirs, which leads them forth 
 gently towards a calm and bright land, 
 so that they look no more backward; 
 and the hand may be a little child's. — 
 Silas Marner, 
 
 31. I think all lines of the human 
 face have something either touching or 
 grand, unless they seem to come from 
 low passions. — Romola, 
 
3nnt 
 
 |HE first sense of mutual 
 love excludes other feel- 
 ings ; it will have the soul 
 all to itself. — Adam Bede. 
 
 2, There are natures in 
 which, if they love us, we 
 are conscious of having a 
 
 sort of baptism and consecration.— M/^- 
 
 dlemarch. 
 
 3. It is mere cowardice to seek safety 
 in negations.— The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 4. Strong souls live like fire-hearted 
 suns to spend their strength in farthest 
 striving action; breathe more free in 
 mighty anguish than in trivial ease. — 
 Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 5. Them as ha^ never had a cushion 
 don't miss it. — Adam Bede, 
 
 6. Errors look so very ugly in persons 
 of small means — one feels they are taking 
 quite a liberty in going astray. — Janet's 
 Repentance, 
 
 7. Our deeds are like children that 
 are born to us; they live and act apart 
 from our own will. — Romola, 
 
3Iune 
 
 IHERE are conditions 
 under which the most 
 majestic person is obliged 
 to sneeze. — Middlemarch, 
 
 9. Any coward can fight 
 a battle when he's sure 
 of winning; but give me 
 the man who has pluck to fight when 
 he's sure of losing. — Janet's Repentance, 
 
 10. Trouble makes us treat all who 
 feel with us, very much alike. — Adam 
 Bede. 
 
 11. A mother dreads no memories— 
 those shadows have all melted away in 
 the dawn of baby's smile.— Afr. GilfiVs 
 Love Story, 
 
 12. The thing we look forward to 
 often comes to pass, but never precisely 
 in the way we have imagined to our- 
 selves. — Amos Barton, 
 
 13. There is no kind of conscious 
 obedience that is not an advance on law- 
 lessness. — Romola, 
 
 14. I couldn't live in peace if I put 
 the shadow of a wilful sin between my- 
 self and God. — The Mill on the Floss. 
 
3June 
 
 SUPPRESSED resolve 
 will betray itself in the 
 ^y^^ -The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 i6. Pre-eminence is sweet 
 to those who love it, even 
 under mediocre circum- 
 stances. Perhaps it was 
 not quite mythical that a slave has been 
 proud to be bought first. — T)aniel 
 T)eronda, 
 
 17. Wherever affection can spring, it 
 is like the green leaf and the blossom- 
 pure, and breathing purity, whatever soil 
 it may grow in,— Romola. 
 
 18. Many an irritating fault, many an 
 unlovely oddity, has come of a hard 
 sorrow. — Mr, Gilfirs Love Story, 
 
 19. There is a wonderful amount of 
 sustenance in the first few words of love. 
 
 — Amos 'Barton, 
 
 20. Prudence is but conceit hood- 
 winked by \gnov2cac^,— Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 21. The soul without still helps the 
 soul within, and its deft magic ends what 
 we begin.— TA^ Legend of JubaL 
 
|LD men's eyes are like old 
 men's memories; they are 
 strongest for things a long 
 way off. — "Hfltnola. 
 
 23. No soul is desolate 
 as long as there is a human 
 being for whom it can 
 feel trust and reverence. — "Romola. 
 
 24. The devil tempts us not — 'tis we 
 tempt him. — Felix Holt, 
 
 25. There's no blameless life save for 
 the passionless. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 26. Much grain is wasted in the 
 world and rots; why not thy handful? 
 — Armgart, 
 
 27. One's self-satisfaction is an un- 
 taxed kind of property which it is very 
 unpleasant to find depreciated. — Middle- 
 march, 
 
 28. We shall all on us be dead some 
 time, I reckon; it 'ud be better if folks 
 'ud make much on us beforehand i'stid 
 o' beginnin' when we're gone. It's but 
 little good you'll do a- watering the last 
 year's crop.— Adam 'Bede, 
 
3Jttne 
 
 GRIFF HOUSE "THE WARM LITTLE NEST WHERE 
 
 HER AFFECTIONS WERE FLEDGED." 
 
 SIMPLY declare my 
 determination not to 
 feed on the broth of Ht- 
 erature when I can get 
 the strong soup. — Life 
 and Letters, 
 
 30. Sephardo: Resolve 
 will melt no rocks. Don Silva: But it 
 can scale xh^m.,— Spanish Gypsy. 
 
E could never have loved 
 the earth so vs^ell if we 
 had had no childhood in 
 it. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 2. Nothing is so good 
 as it seems beforehand. 
 
 — Silas Marner, 
 
 3. College mostly makes people like 
 bladders — just good for nothing but 
 t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. — 
 Adam 'Bade, 
 
 4. There has been no great people 
 w^ithout processions, and the man who 
 thinks himself too wise to be moved by 
 them to anything but contempt, is like 
 the puddle that was proud of standing 
 alone while the river rushed by. — Felix 
 Holt. 
 
 5. Susceptible persons are more 
 affected by a change of tone than by 
 unexpected words. — Adam "Bade, 
 
 6. Honey's not sweet, commended as 
 cathartic. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 7. There are answers which, in turn- 
 ing away wrath, only send it to the 
 other end of the room. — Middlemarch, 
 
3nlv 
 
 T'S a small joke sets men 
 laughing when they sit 
 staring at one another 
 with a pipe i^ their mouths. 
 — Adam "Bede, 
 
 9. In the ages since 
 Adam's marriage, it has 
 been good for some men to be alone, 
 and for some women also. — Felix Holt, 
 
 10. The gods of the hearth exist for 
 us still; and let all new faith be tolerant 
 of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own 
 roots. — Silas Marner, 
 
 11. The power of being quiet carries 
 a man well through moments of embar- 
 rassment. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 12. There are men whose presence 
 infuses trust and reverence. — "Romola, 
 
 13. The best intent grasps but a liv- 
 ing present which may grow like any 
 unfledged bird. — Armgart, 
 
 14. In moments high space widens 
 in the soul. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
3nlv 
 
 |ORE helpful than all 
 wisdom, is one draught 
 of simple human pity, 
 that will not forsake us. 
 
 — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 i6. The homage of a 
 man may be delightful 
 until he asks straight for love, by which 
 a woman renders homage. — JFelix Holt, 
 
 17. Watch your own speech, and 
 notice how it is guided by your less con- 
 scious purposes. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 18. Thee mustna undervally prayer. 
 Prayer mayna bring money, but it brings 
 us what no money can buy. — Adam Bede, 
 
 19. Every man's work, pursued 
 steadily, tends to become an end in itself, 
 and so to bridge over the loveless chasms 
 of his life. — Silas Marner, 
 
 20. The human soul is hospitable, 
 and will entertain conflicting sentiments 
 and contradictory opinions with much 
 impartiality. — Romola, 
 
 21. Hatred is like fire— it makes even 
 light rubbish deadly. — Janet's "Repentance, 
 
T is the way with half the 
 truth amidst which we 
 Hve, that it only haunts 
 us and makes dull pulsa- 
 tions that are never born 
 into sound. — 'Romola. 
 
 23. There is a power in 
 the direct glance of a sincere and loving 
 human soul, which will do more to dis- 
 sipate prejudice and kindle charity than 
 the most elaborate arguments.— /^//^^V 
 ^Repentance, 
 
 24. There^s no rule so wise but what 
 it's a pity for somebody or oxh^v,—Adam 
 Bede, 
 
 25. Perhaps some of the most terrible 
 irony of the human lot is this of a deep 
 truth coming to be uttered by lips that 
 have no right to it.— Felix Holt, 
 
 26. There is no feeling, perhaps, 
 except the extremes of fear and grief, 
 that does not find relief in music— that 
 does not make a man sing or play the 
 better.— TA^ Mill on the Floss, 
 
 27. ^ The deepest hunger of a faithful 
 heart is faithfulness.— /S^^2»/>A Gypsy, 
 
 28. One morsePs as good as another 
 when your mouth's out o' ta.stG,—yidam 
 'Bede, 
 
3lulp 
 
 [Y desiring what is per- 
 fectly good, even when 
 we don't quite know 
 what it is and cannot do 
 what we would, we are 
 part of the divine power 
 against evil — widening 
 the skirts of light and making the 
 struggle with darkness narrower.— Mid- 
 dlemarch, 
 
 30. A foreman, if he's got a con- 
 science, and delights in his work, will 
 do his business as well as if he was a 
 partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a 
 man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because 
 he didn't get extra pay for li,— Adam 
 Bede, 
 
 31. It has been so with rulers, em- 
 perors, nay, sages who hold secrets of 
 great Time, sharing his hoary and be- 
 neficent life — men who sate throned 
 among the multitudes — they have sore 
 sickened at the loss of one. — Spanish 
 Gypsy. 
 
VERY bond of your life is 
 a debt. — Romola, 
 
 2. I like to read about 
 Moses best, in th' Old 
 Testament. He carried 
 a hard business well 
 through, and died when 
 
 other folks were going to reap the fruits. 
 
 — Adam Bede, 
 
 3. Was there ever a young lady or 
 gentleman not ready to give up an un- 
 specified indulgence for the sake of the 
 favorite one specified? — T)aniel T)eronda, 
 
 4. The saints were cowards who 
 stood by to see Christ crucified: they 
 should have flung themselves upon the 
 Roman spears, and died in vain — the 
 grandest death, to die in vain — for love 
 greater than sways the forces of the 
 world! — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 5. There's nothing but what's bear- 
 able as long as a man can work. — Adam 
 Bede, 
 
 6. When a man gets a good berth, 
 half the deserving must come after. — 
 Middlemarch, 
 
 7. Ignorance is not so damnable as 
 humbug, but when it prescribes pills it 
 may happen to do more \\2irm.,— Felix Holt, 
 
O man can be wise on an 
 empty stomach. — Adam 
 'Bede, 
 
 9. There is a great deal 
 of unmapped country 
 within us which would 
 have to be taken into 
 
 account in an explanation of our gusts 
 
 and storms. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 10. What we call illusions are often, 
 in truth, a wider vision of past and 
 present realities. — Felix Holt, 
 
 11. Often the soul is ripened into 
 fuller goodness while age has spread an 
 ugly film, so that mere glances can never 
 divine the preciousness of the fruit. — 
 Silas Marner, 
 
 12. Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, 
 was not without influence over her hus- 
 band. No woman is; she can always 
 incline him to do either what she wishes, 
 or the reverse. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 13. The years deepen the value of 
 our past to us, and of our friends who 
 are a part of that past. — Life and Letters, 
 
 14. It is very pleasant to see some 
 men turn round; pleasant as a sudden 
 rush of warm air in winter, or the flash 
 of firelight in the chill dusk,— Daniel 
 Veronda. 
 
EANIN' goes but a little 
 way i' most things, for 
 you may mean to stick 
 things together and your 
 glue may be bad, and 
 then where are you? — 
 Silas Marner. 
 
 i6. The presence of a noble nature, 
 generous in its wishes, ardent in its 
 charity, changes the light for us. — Mid- 
 dlemarch, 
 
 17. The very truth hath a color from 
 the disposition of the uii^r^v,— Felix Holt. 
 
 18. There's many a good bit o' work 
 done with a sad heart. — Adam Bede. 
 
 19. What makes life dreary is the 
 want of motive. — MiddlemarcL 
 
 20. Childhood has no forebodings; 
 but then, it is soothed by no memories 
 of outlived sorrow. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 21. I will not feed on doing great 
 
 tasks ill, 
 Dull the world's sense with 
 
 mediocrity, 
 And live by thrash that smothers 
 
 excellence. — Armgart, 
 
|HE reward of one duty is 
 the power to fulfil an- 
 other—so said Ben Azai. 
 — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 23. If a prophet is to 
 keep his power he must 
 be a prophet like Moham- 
 med, with an army at his back, that when 
 the people's faith is fainting it may be 
 frightened into life again. — Romola, 
 
 24. Resignation is the willing endur- 
 ance of a pain that is not allayed.— T/i^ 
 Mill on the Floss, 
 
 25. One likes a "beyond" everywhere. 
 — Felix Holt, 
 
 26. It seems as if them as aren't 
 wanted here are th' only folks as aren't 
 wanted i' th' other world. — Adam Bede, 
 
 27. Youth thinks itself the goal of 
 
 each old life; 
 Age has but travelled from a 
 
 far-off time 
 Just to be ready for youth's 
 
 service. — Armgart, 
 
 28. Our words have wings, but fly 
 not where we would. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
:auffufit 
 
 T allays comes into my 
 head when I'm sorry for 
 folks, and feel as I can't 
 do a power to help 'ern, 
 not if I was to get up i' 
 the middle o' the night- 
 it comes into my head as 
 Them above has got a deal tenderer heart 
 nor what I've got— for I can't be any- 
 ways better nor Them as made me. — 
 Silas Marner, 
 
 30. One of the lessons a woman most 
 rarely learns, is never to talk to an angry 
 or a drunken man. — Adam "Bede. 
 
 31. I can't abide to see men throw 
 away their tools i' that way, the minute 
 the clock begins to strike, as if they took 
 no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid 
 o' doing a stroke too much ... I hate to 
 see a man's arms drop down as if he was 
 shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just 
 as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight 
 in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go 
 on turning a bit after you loose it.— 
 Adam *Bede, 
 
S)eptem6er 
 
 |N inborn passion gives a 
 rebel's right. — ArmgarU 
 
 2. We look at the one 
 little woman's face wc 
 love, as we look at the 
 face of our mother earth, 
 and see all sorts of an- 
 swers to our own yearnings. — Adam 'Bede, 
 
 3. The blessed work of helping the 
 world forward, happily does not wait to 
 be done by perfect men. — Janet* s liepent- 
 ance, 
 
 4. It's a feeling as gives you a sort o' 
 liberty, as if you could walk more fear- 
 less, when you've more trust in another 
 than y' have in youvsGlL— Adam Bede, 
 
 5. Love has a way of cheating itself 
 consciously, like a child who plays at 
 solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with 
 assurances that it all the while disbelieves. 
 — Adam Bede, 
 
 6. I say not that compromise is un- 
 necessary, but it is an evil attendant on 
 our imperfection. — Felix Holt, 
 
 7. When gratitude has become a mat- 
 ter of reasoning, there are many ways of 
 escaping from its bonds.— Middlemarch, 
 
g)eptemfter 
 
 EEP, unspeakable suffer- 
 ing may well be called a 
 baptism, a regeneration, 
 the initiation into a new 
 state. — Adam Bede. 
 
 9. The shallowness of 
 a water-nixie's soul may 
 
 have a charm until she becomes didactic. 
 
 — Middlemarch, 
 
 10. Fm not denyin* the women are 
 foolish: God Almighty made 'em to 
 match the mtn,— Adam Bede, 
 
 11. Excellence encourages one about 
 life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth 
 of the world. — Daniel Deronda, 
 
 12. Men who are sour at missing 
 
 larger game 
 May wing a chattering sparrow 
 for revenge. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 13. Speech is often barren; but silence 
 also does not necessarily brood over a 
 full ntst,— Felix Holt, 
 
 14. Souls have complexions too: 
 what will suit one will not suit another. 
 — Middlemarch, 
 
 M^ 
 
S)eptemfter 
 
 lEMESIS is lame, but she 
 is of colossal stature, 
 like the gods. — Janet*s 
 'Repentance, 
 
 1 6. Poor relations are 
 undeniably irritating — 
 their existence is so en- 
 tirely uncalled for on our part.— 77r^ Mill 
 on the Floss, 
 
 17. In the man whose childhood has 
 known caresses there is always a fibre of 
 memory that can be touched to gentle 
 issues. — Janefs ^Repentance, 
 
 18. In God's war slackness is infamy. 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 19. A man with a definite will and 
 an energetic personality acts as a sort of 
 flag to draw and bind together the 
 foolish units of a mob. — Felix Holt, 
 
 20. With the sinking of high human 
 trust, the dignity of life sinks too. — 
 Roma la, 
 
 21. Great love has many attributes, 
 and shrines for varied worshippers. — 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
September 
 
 HERE are glances of 
 hatred that stab and raise 
 no cry of murder. — Felix 
 Holt, 
 
 23. Who can tell what 
 just criticisms Murr the 
 Cat may be passing on us 
 beings of wider speculation? — Middle- 
 march, 
 
 24. It is a great gift of the gods to 
 be born with a hatred and contempt of 
 all injustice and meanness. — "Romola, 
 
 25. Let us bind love with duty: for 
 duty is the love of law; and law is the 
 nature of the Eternal. — Daniel T)eronda, 
 
 26. I own no love but such as guards 
 my honor. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 27. A patronizing disposition always 
 has its meaner side. — Adam 'Bede, 
 
 28. A loving woman^s world lies 
 within the four walls of her own home. 
 —Amos Barton, 
 
S)eptember 
 
 HAT greater thing is there 
 for two human souls, than 
 to feel that they are joined 
 for life— to strengthen 
 each other in all labor, to 
 rest on each other in all 
 sorrow, to minister to 
 each other in all pain, to be one with 
 each other in silent unspeakable memo- 
 ries at the moment of the last parting? 
 — Adam Bede, 
 
 30. See the difference between the 
 impression a man makes on you when 
 you walk by his side in familiar talk, or 
 look at him in his home, and the figure 
 he makes when seen from a lofty histor- 
 ical level, or even in the eyes of a critical 
 neighbor, who thinks of him as an em- 
 bodied system or opinion rather than as 
 a msin,— Adam Bede, 
 
MILLY barton's COTTAGE. 
 
 g 
 
flDctober 
 
 |UT how will you find 
 good? It is not a thing of 
 choice: it is a river that 
 flows from the foot of the 
 Invisible Throne, and 
 flows by the path of obe- 
 dience.— i^owo/^. 
 
 2. It is a vain thought to flee from 
 the work that God appoints us.— Adam 
 
 Bede, 
 
 3. A woman, let her be as good as 
 she may, has got to put up with the life 
 her husband makes for h&x.— Middle- 
 march, 
 
 4. I know the dancin's nonsense; but 
 if you stick at everything because it's 
 nonsense, you wonna go far i' this life.— 
 Adam Bede, 
 
 5. A bachelor's children are always 
 young: they're immortal children— always 
 lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a 
 chance of turning out good. — Felix Holt. 
 
 6. Worldly faces never look so 
 worldly as at a iun&xdX.—Janefs Repent- 
 ance, 
 
 7. We can set a watch over our affec- 
 tions and our constancy as we can over 
 other tvQSLSures.—Middlemarch, 
 
€>ctofter 
 
 MAKE it a virtue to be 
 content with my mid- 
 dlingness; it is always 
 pardonable, so that one 
 does not ask others to 
 take it for superiority. — 
 T)aniel T)eronda, 
 
 9. No man is matriculated to the 
 art of life until he has been well tempted. 
 — Romola, 
 
 10. Language is a stream that is al- 
 most sure to smack of a mingled soil. — 
 Silas Marner. 
 
 11. There are things we must re- 
 nounce in life; some of us must resign 
 love. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 12. "Ignorance'^ says Ajax, "is a 
 painless evil"; so, I should think, is dirt, 
 considering the merry faces that go along 
 with it.— Mr. GilfiVs Love Story, 
 
 13. Our deeds determine us, as much 
 as we determine our deeds. — Adam Bede, 
 
 14. Signs are small measurable things, 
 but interpretations are illimitable.— Af/rf- 
 dlemarch. 
 
OPctober 
 
 |E are pitiably in subjec- 
 tion to all sorts of vanity 
 — even the very vanities 
 we are practically re- 
 nouncing. — Felix Holt, 
 
 i6. Every man, who is 
 not a monster, a mathe- 
 matician, or a mad philosopher, is the 
 slave of some woman or other. — Amos 
 *Barton, 
 
 17. The soul of man when it gets 
 fairly rotten will bear you all sorts of 
 poisonous toadstools. — Middlemarch. 
 
 18. We are very much indebted to 
 such a linking of events as makes a doubt- 
 ful action look wrong. — Felix Holt. 
 
 19. I will seek nothing but to shun 
 base joy. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 20. There is no sense of ease like the 
 ease we felt in those scenes where we 
 were born. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 21. Human feeling is like the mighty 
 rivers that bless the earth; it does not 
 wait for beauty — it flows with resistless 
 force, and brings beauty with it,— Adam 
 Bede, 
 
€)eto&er 
 
 ALF the sorrows of women 
 would be averted if they 
 could repress the speech 
 they know to be useless 
 —nay, the speech they 
 have resolved not to 
 utter. — Felix Holt. 
 
 23. Scepticism, as we know, can never 
 be thoroughly applied, else life would 
 come to a sX.2ind-%Xi\\,—Milddlemarch, 
 
 24. There's more of odd than even 
 
 in this world. 
 Else pretty sinners would not be 
 
 let off 
 Sooner than ugly. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 25. I have nothing to say again' 
 Craig, on'y it's a pity he couldna be 
 hatched o'er again, an' hatched different. 
 — Adam 'Bede, 
 
 26. It is possible to have a strong self- 
 love without any self-satisfaction, rather 
 with a self-discontent which is the more 
 intense because one's own little core of 
 egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. 
 — Daniel T)eronda, 
 
 27. Among all forms of mistake, 
 prophecy is the most gratuitous.— M/(i- 
 dlemarch, 
 
 28. Falsehood is so easy, truth so dif- 
 ficult. — Adam 'Bede. 
 
flDetofter 
 
 30. 
 
 OVE does not aim simply 
 at the conscious good of 
 the beloved object; it is 
 not satisfied without per- 
 fect loyalty of heart; it 
 aims at its own complete- 
 ness. — Romola, 
 
 Thoughts 
 That nourish us to magnanimity 
 Grow perfect with more perfect 
 
 utterance, 
 Gathering full-shapen strength. 
 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 31. The strength of the donkey mind 
 lies in adopting a course inversely as the 
 arguments urged, which, well consid- 
 ered, requires as great a mental force as 
 the direct sequence. — Adam Bede, 
 
]HERE is always a stronger 
 sense of life when the sun 
 is brilliant after rain. — 
 Adam "Bede, 
 
 2. Animals are such 
 agreeable friends — they 
 ask no questions, they 
 
 pass no criticisms. — Mr, Gilfirs Love 
 
 Story, 
 
 3. She who willingly lifts up the veil 
 of her married life has profaned it from 
 a sanctuary into a vulgar place. — Romola, 
 
 4. There's debts we can't pay like 
 money debts, by paying extra for the 
 years that have slipped by. — Silas Marner, 
 
 5. Blows are sarcasms turned stupid: 
 wit is a form of force that leaves the 
 limbs at rest. — Felix Holt, 
 
 6. Dear me ! Why will people take 
 so much pains to find out evil about 
 others? — Amos Barton, 
 
 7. A feeling of revenge is not worth 
 much, that you should care to keep it. 
 
 — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
iI5otoemfter 
 
 VEN a wise man generally 
 lets some folly ooze out 
 of him in his will. — T)aniel 
 Deronda, 
 
 9. I suppose all phrases 
 of mere compliment have 
 their turn to be true. A 
 man is occasionally grateful when he 
 says "thank you." — The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 10. I would change with nobody, 
 madam. And if troubles were put up to 
 market, I'd sooner buy old than new. 
 It's something to have seen the worst. — 
 
 Felix Holt, 
 
 11. It is a wonderful subduer— this 
 need of love. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 12. A diffident man likes the idea of 
 doing something remarkable, which will 
 create belief in him without any imme- 
 diate display of brilliancy. — Felix Holt, 
 
 13. By being contemptible we set 
 men's minds to the tune of contempt. — 
 
 Middlemarch, 
 
 14. There's nothing like settling with 
 ourselves as there's a deal we must do 
 without i' this life. It's no use looking 
 on life as if it was Treddles'on fair, where 
 folks only go to see shows and get idxr- 
 \ngs,—Adain Bede. 
 
OU^RE mighty fond o' 
 Craig; but, for my part, 
 I think he's welly like a 
 cock as thinks the sun's 
 rose o' purpose to hear 
 him crow.— Adam Bede. 
 
 i6. The right word is 
 always a power, and communicates its 
 definiteness to our action,— Middiemarch, 
 
 17. O the anguish of the thought that 
 we can never atone to our dead for the 
 stinted affection we gave them. — Amos 
 Barton. 
 
 18. The higher life begins for us, my 
 daughter, when we renounce our own 
 will to bow before a divine law. — Romola, 
 
 19. Blessed is the man who, having 
 nothing to say, abstains from giving us 
 wordy evidence of the fact. — Theophrastus 
 Such, 
 
 20. Constancy in mistake is constant 
 folly. — Felix Holt, 
 
 21. 'Tis a vile life that like a garden 
 
 pool 
 Lies stagnant in the round of 
 personal loves. 
 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
HJotoember 
 
 |F you want to slip into a 
 round hole, you must 
 make a ball of yourself. 
 — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 23. Particular lies may 
 speak a general truth. — 
 Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 24. A mother's love, I often say, is 
 like a tree that has got all the wood in 
 it, from the very first it made. — Daniel 
 T)eronda, 
 
 25. Necessity does the work of cour- 
 age. — Romola, 
 
 26. A woman's lot is made for her 
 by the love she accepts. — Felix Holt, 
 
 27. I'd rether given ten shillin' an' 
 help a man to stand on his own legs, 
 nor pay half-a-crown to buy him a parish 
 crutch. — Janet*s Repentance. 
 
 28. Breed is stronger than pasture.— 
 Silas Marner, 
 
5I?oi)ember 
 
 GEORGE ELIOt'S STUDY WINDOW IN COVENTRY. 
 
 IFE never seems so clear 
 and easy as when the 
 heart is beating faster at 
 the sight of some gen- 
 erous self-risking deed. 
 — Romola, 
 
 30. It's poor eating where 
 the flavor o' the meat Hes i' the cruets. 
 There's folks as make bad butter, and 
 trusten to the salt t' hide it,— Adam Xede, 
 
japecemfter 
 
 IHINGS are achieved when 
 they are well begun. 
 The perfect archer calls 
 
 the deer his own 
 While yet the shaft is 
 whistling. 
 
 — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 2. Energetic natures, strong for all 
 strenuous deeds, will often rush away 
 from a hopeless sufferer, as if they were 
 hard-hearted. It is the over-mastering 
 sense of pain that drives them. — Adam 
 'Bede, 
 
 3 . Notions and scruples are like spilled 
 needles, making one afraid of treading, 
 or sitting down, or even ^2i\xng,— Middle- 
 march. 
 
 4. Human longings are perversely 
 obstinate; and to the man whose mouth 
 is watering for a peach, it is of no use to 
 offer the largest vegetable marrow. — Mr, 
 
 Gilfirs Love Story, 
 
 5. I enter into no plots, but I never 
 forsake my colors. — Romola, 
 
 6. Under protracted ill every living 
 creature will find something that makes 
 a comparative ease. — Felix Holt, 
 
 7. I measure men's dullness by the 
 devices they trust in for deceiving others. 
 — Romola, 
 
2>etember 
 
 |TRONG love hungers to 
 bless and not merely to 
 behold blessing. — Daniel 
 T)eronda. 
 
 9. I think half those prig- 
 gish maxims about human 
 nature in the lump are no 
 more to be relied on than universal reme- 
 dies. There are different sorts of human 
 nature. — Felix Holt. 
 
 10. The man who awakes the wonder- 
 ing tremulous passion of a young girl 
 always thinks her affectionate.— ^<^^w 
 
 Bede, 
 
 11. In marriage, the certainty, "She 
 will never love me much," is easier to 
 bear, than the fear, **I shall love her no 
 more. ' ^ — Middlemarch. 
 
 12. It is the lot of every man who has 
 to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, 
 that he must often speak in virtue of 
 yesterday's faith, hoping it will come 
 back to-morrow. — Romola, 
 
 13. There's folks 'ud hold a sieve 
 under the pump and expect to carry 
 away the water. — Adam Bede, 
 
 14. Surely, surely the only true knowl- 
 edge of our fellowman is that which 
 enables us to feel with him. — Janet's 
 Repentance. 
 
December 
 
 ESPAIR no more leans on 
 others than perfect con- 
 tentment. — Adam 'Bede, 
 
 i6. Certainly the mis- 
 takes that we male and fe- 
 male mortals make when 
 we have our own way 
 might fairly raise some wonder that we 
 are so fond of it. — Middlemarch, 
 
 17. To have in general but little feel- 
 ing seems to be the only security against 
 feeling too much on any particular 
 occasion. — Middlemarch, 
 
 18. There's no pleasure i' living if 
 you're to be corked up for iver, and only 
 dribble your mind out by the sly, like a 
 leaky barrel. — Adam Bede, 
 
 19. Our lives make a moral tradition 
 for our individual selves, as the life of 
 mankind at large makes a moral tradition 
 for the race; and to have once acted 
 greatly seems a reason why we should 
 always be noble. — Romola, 
 
 20. In love's spring all good seems 
 possible. — Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 21. It is always chilling, in friendly 
 intercourse, to say you have no opinion 
 to give. — The Mill on the Floss, 
 
Specemfter 
 
 ROM the British point of 
 view mascuHne beauty is 
 regarded very much as it 
 is in the drapery business: 
 — as good solely for the 
 fancy department — for 
 young noblemen, artists, 
 poets, and the chrgy.— Felix Holt, 
 
 23. **0 may I join the choir 
 
 invisible, 
 Of those immortal dead who 
 
 live again 
 In minds made better by their 
 
 presence. — Poem, 
 
 24. An old friend is not always the 
 person whom it is easiest to make a con- 
 fident of. — Middlemarch, 
 
 25. Examine your words well, and 
 you will find that even when you have no 
 motive to be false, it is a very hard thing 
 to say the exact Xxuih.,— Adam Bede, 
 
 26. There are moments when our 
 passions speak and decide for us, and we 
 seem to stand by and wonder,— "Romo la. 
 
 27. A great idea is an eaglets egg, 
 craves time for ]\2Xching,—Stradivarius, 
 
 28. Were another childhood-world 
 
 my share, 
 I would be born a little sister 
 there. — Brother and Sister, 
 
SUecemftet 
 
 OW IS It that the poets 
 have said so many fine 
 things about our first 
 love, so few about our 
 later love? Are their first 
 poems their best? or are 
 not those the best which 
 come from their fuller thought, their 
 larger experience, their deeper-rooted 
 a.ikctions?— Adam Bede, 
 
 30. There are so many things wrong 
 and difficult in the world, that no man 
 can be great — he can hardly keep him- 
 self from wickedness— unless he gives 
 up thinking much about pleasure or 
 rewards, and gets strength to endure 
 what is hard and painful. — Romola. 
 
 31, May I reach 
 That purest heaven, be to other 
 
 souls 
 The cup of strength in some 
 
 great agony. 
 Enkindle generous ardor, feed 
 
 pure love. 
 So shall I join the choir invisible 
 Whose music is the gladness 
 
 of the world. — Poem, 
 
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