George Eliot Quotes about Earth

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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

George Eliot

Heaven, Earth, Fit

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.317

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

George Eliot

Children, Childhood, Earth

George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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 – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

George Eliot

Hardship, Earth, Want

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.331, George Eliot

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

George Eliot

Children, Men, Earth

George Eliot (2005). “Silas Marner”, p.6, Collector's Library

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?

George Eliot

Heaven, Mind, Earth

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2966, Delphi Classics