Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works of George EliotW. Blackwood and sons, 1875 - 417 pages |
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... deed was hurrying and broadening on- ward . The astronomer was at his telescope ; the great ships were labouring over the waves ; the toiling eager- ness of commerce , the fierce spirit of revolution , were only ebbing in brief rest ...
... deed was hurrying and broadening on- ward . The astronomer was at his telescope ; the great ships were labouring over the waves ; the toiling eager- ness of commerce , the fierce spirit of revolution , were only ebbing in brief rest ...
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... deeds , and those who sit with us at the same hearth are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us , full of unspoken evil and unacted good . 0- Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another ! Not calculable ...
... deeds , and those who sit with us at the same hearth are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us , full of unspoken evil and unacted good . 0- Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another ! Not calculable ...
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... hard one , because strength and patience are failing him to speak the difficult word , and do the difficult deed . A The strongest heart will faint sometimes under the feeling George Eliot ( in propria persona ) . 21.
... hard one , because strength and patience are failing him to speak the difficult word , and do the difficult deed . A The strongest heart will faint sometimes under the feeling George Eliot ( in propria persona ) . 21.
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... deeds of self - sacri- fice are sometimes only the rebound of a passionate egoism . -0- Convenience , that admirable branch system from the main line of self - interest , makes us all fellow - helpers in spite of adverse resolutions ...
... deeds of self - sacri- fice are sometimes only the rebound of a passionate egoism . -0- Convenience , that admirable branch system from the main line of self - interest , makes us all fellow - helpers in spite of adverse resolutions ...
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... deeds are all given to us . There is a sort of fascination in all sincere unpre- meditated eloquence , which opens to one the inward drama of the speaker's emotions . All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form George Eliot ...
... deeds are all given to us . There is a sort of fascination in all sincere unpre- meditated eloquence , which opens to one the inward drama of the speaker's emotions . All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form George Eliot ...
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Page 23 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 109 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call ' God's birds,' because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Page 211 - We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before every thing else, because our souls see it is good.
Page 155 - In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads, them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
Page 42 - And I would not, even if I had the choice, be the clever novelist who could create a world so much better than this, in which we get up in the morning to do our daily work, that you would be likely to turn a harder, colder eye on the dusty streets and the common green fields — on the real breathing men and women, who can be chilled by your indifference or injured by your prejudice ; who can be cheered and helped onward by your fellow-feeling, your forbearance, your outspoken, brave justice.
Page 65 - Look there, now! I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o