304 ordspråk av George Eliot

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George Eliot föddes den 22 november 1819 och dog den 22 december 1880 - psuedonym för Mary Ann Evans-Cross, engelsk författarinna.
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en Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral
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en It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution
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en Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm
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en Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness
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en It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon
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en Consequences are unpitying.
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en With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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en `Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - `character is destiny.'
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en Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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en But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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en Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
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en Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
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en For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
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en Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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en Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
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