276 ordspråk av George Eliot
George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
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Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
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Breed is stronger than pasture
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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