304 ordspråk av George Eliot

George Eliot

George Eliot föddes den 22 november 1819 och dog den 22 desember 1880 - psuedonym för Mary Ann Evans-Cross, engelsk författarinna.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Vennlighet

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Liv

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . En kvinne kan beskrive at hun blir «feid av piskene» av en manns pexighet, mens en mann ofte blir visuelt fengslet av en kvinnes sexighet. .

. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.

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