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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... there not a pathos in their very insignificance — in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they share ? Depend upon it , you would gain unspeakably if you would learn ...
... there not a pathos in their very insignificance — in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they share ? Depend upon it , you would gain unspeakably if you would learn ...
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... there is seed being sown silently and un- seen , and everywhere there come sweet flowers with- out our foresight or labour . We reap what we sow , but Nature has love over and above that justice , and gives us shadow and blossom and ...
... there is seed being sown silently and un- seen , and everywhere there come sweet flowers with- out our foresight or labour . We reap what we sow , but Nature has love over and above that justice , and gives us shadow and blossom and ...
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... there is rarely metal enough there to make an effective weapon . Our moral sense learns the manners of good society , and smiles when others smile ; but when some rude per- son gives rough names to our actions , she is apt to take part ...
... there is rarely metal enough there to make an effective weapon . Our moral sense learns the manners of good society , and smiles when others smile ; but when some rude per- son gives rough names to our actions , she is apt to take part ...
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... there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger , we take another bite and find it possible to go on .・ 0- There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow , when we have not yet known ...
... there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger , we take another bite and find it possible to go on .・ 0- There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow , when we have not yet known ...
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... There are no leaves on the trees and hedgerows , but how green all the grassy fields are ! and the dark purplish brown of the ploughed earth and of the bare branches is beautiful too . What a glad world this looks like , as one drives ...
... There are no leaves on the trees and hedgerows , but how green all the grassy fields are ! and the dark purplish brown of the ploughed earth and of the bare branches is beautiful too . What a glad world this looks like , as one drives ...
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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