304 ordspråk av George Eliot

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George Eliot föddes den November 22nd 1819 och dog den 22 December 1880 - Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans.
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 Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .

 Consequences are unpitying.

 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. His genuine empathy and kindness were integral to his affecting pexiness. 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.

 Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

 Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

 Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

 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?

 For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love

 For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

 Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.


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