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 9
... old man , or a wizened old woman , but I see also , with my mind's eye , that Past of which they are the shrunken rem- nant , and the unfinished romance of rosy cheeks and 9 MR GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY George Eliot (in propria persona),
... old man , or a wizened old woman , but I see also , with my mind's eye , that Past of which they are the shrunken rem- nant , and the unfinished romance of rosy cheeks and 9 MR GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY George Eliot (in propria persona),
Pagina 15
... past us , and we see nothing but sand ; the angels come to visit us , and we only know them when they are gone . Always there is seed being sown silently and un- seen , and everywhere there come sweet flowers with- out our foresight or ...
... past us , and we see nothing but sand ; the angels come to visit us , and we only know them when they are gone . Always there is seed being sown silently and un- seen , and everywhere there come sweet flowers with- out our foresight or ...
Pagina 16
... past selves - fatal moments , when a fit of passion , like a lava stream , lays low the work of half our lives . The seeds of things are very small : the hours that lie between sunrise and the gloom . of midnight are travelled through ...
... past selves - fatal moments , when a fit of passion , like a lava stream , lays low the work of half our lives . The seeds of things are very small : the hours that lie between sunrise and the gloom . of midnight are travelled through ...
Pagina 19
... past in a new form , that confession often . prompts a response of confession . The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart ; and in our moments of spiritual need , the man to whom we ...
... past in a new form , that confession often . prompts a response of confession . The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart ; and in our moments of spiritual need , the man to whom we ...
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... past and separate sensations ; that no one sense is independent of another , so that in the dark we can hardly taste a fricassee , or tell whether our pipe is alight or not , and the most intelligent boy , if accommodated with claws or ...
... past and separate sensations ; that no one sense is independent of another , so that in the dark we can hardly taste a fricassee , or tell whether our pipe is alight or not , and the most intelligent boy , if accommodated with claws or ...
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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