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George Eliot Quotes about Growth

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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

George Eliot
Growth, Bud, Sap
George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.35

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.

George Eliot
Spring, Mind, Growth
George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.80

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

George Eliot
Religious, Powerful, Growth
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4704, ShandonPress

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

George Eliot
Children, Men, Growth
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6426, Delphi Classics

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

George Eliot
Hope, Growth, Vigorous
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4195, Delphi Classics

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