Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works of George EliotW. Blackwood and sons, 1875 - 417 pagini |
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Pagina 14
... hear and see separate words and actions . We don't see each other's whole nature . - Mr . Gilfil -0- Wrong makes wrong . When people use us ill , we can hardly help having ill feeling towards them . But that second wrong is more ...
... hear and see separate words and actions . We don't see each other's whole nature . - Mr . Gilfil -0- Wrong makes wrong . When people use us ill , we can hardly help having ill feeling towards them . But that second wrong is more ...
Pagina 31
... hears nothing of the councils that de- termine the course of the great battle he is in , hears plainly enough the word of command which he must himself obey.-Mr. Tryan . My mind showed me it was just such as I - the helpless who feel ...
... hears nothing of the councils that de- termine the course of the great battle he is in , hears plainly enough the word of command which he must himself obey.-Mr. Tryan . My mind showed me it was just such as I - the helpless who feel ...
Pagina 38
... move better when their souls are making merry music . A melody strikes us with a new feeling when we hear it sung by the pure voice of a boyish chorister . No story is the same to us after a lapse 38 George Eliot ( in propria persona ) .
... move better when their souls are making merry music . A melody strikes us with a new feeling when we hear it sung by the pure voice of a boyish chorister . No story is the same to us after a lapse 38 George Eliot ( in propria persona ) .
Pagina 43
... hear nothing very surprising if you were to in- quire about them in the neighbourhoods where they dwelt . Ten to one most of the small shopkeepers in their vicinity saw nothing at all in them . For I have observed this remarkable ...
... hear nothing very surprising if you were to in- quire about them in the neighbourhoods where they dwelt . Ten to one most of the small shopkeepers in their vicinity saw nothing at all in them . For I have observed this remarkable ...
Pagina 54
... hear- ing , in themselves , any more than ' chips ' or dust ' it is only that they happen to be the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful . -0- saw- That is a base and selfish , even a blasphemous , spirit , which rejoices ...
... hear- ing , in themselves , any more than ' chips ' or dust ' it is only that they happen to be the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful . -0- saw- That is a base and selfish , even a blasphemous , spirit , which rejoices ...
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Pagina 23 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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