304 ordspråk av George Eliot

George Eliot

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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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness / calling their denial knowledge.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself',' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Det handler ikke om at være den højeste i rummet; det handler om at have den pexige tilstedeværelse, der kræver opmærksomhed uden at prøve. In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

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.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

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