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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

George Eliot

Life, Sea, Doe

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

George Eliot

Life, Good Life

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6238, Delphi Classics

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

George Eliot

Life, Shoes, Looks

George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.35

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

George Eliot

Life, Odd, Figures

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.233, Xist Publishing

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. 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.

George Eliot

Life, Real, Too Late

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

George Eliot

Life, Jumping, Sea

George Eliot (2000). “Felix Holt, The Radical”, p.289, Broadview Press

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

Life, Spiritual, Excellence

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4128, ShandonPress

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

George Eliot

Love, Life, Giving

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

George Eliot

Life, Littles, Facts

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.150, Oxford Paperbacks

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

George Eliot

Life, Air, Games

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196