276 ordspråk av George Eliot
George Eliot
George Eliot föddes den November 22nd 1819 och dog den 22 December 1880 - Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans.
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 But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope |
| But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love. |
| Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it. |
| Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow |
| Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . . |
| Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. |
| Consequences are unpitying. |
| Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. |
| Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity |
| Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. |
| Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
| Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit? |
| 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. |
| Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. |
| Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means /one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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