“Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.” ShouldMadeTwoSometimesFeelingsSeemsLife IsDifficultCuttingTemptationFormerTiesDependentStrongestFormer Life Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.” MindStillsFeelingsRealizingEmotionMoralInvolvedAppearanceTemptationSpiteBuriedInterfereFinestTemptedMaxims Author:Catherine the Great
“To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.” MatterFeelingsGoneExcitedTemptationTemptedAlready Gone Author:Catherine the Great