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 5
... wrong place ! It is only the very largest souls who will be able to appreciate and pity him — who will discern and love sincerity of purpose amid all the bungling feebleness of achieve- ment . 0 . Nice distinctions are troublesome . It ...
... wrong place ! It is only the very largest souls who will be able to appreciate and pity him — who will discern and love sincerity of purpose amid all the bungling feebleness of achieve- ment . 0 . Nice distinctions are troublesome . It ...
Pagina 14
... Wrong makes wrong . When people use us ill , we can hardly help having ill feeling towards them . But that second wrong is more excusable . - Mr . Gilfil ..・ O ・ We can hardly learn humility and tenderness enough except by suffering ...
... Wrong makes wrong . When people use us ill , we can hardly help having ill feeling towards them . But that second wrong is more excusable . - Mr . Gilfil ..・ O ・ We can hardly learn humility and tenderness enough except by suffering ...
Pagina 16
... wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us ; it passes through us like a vibration , and we inflict what we have suffered . · 0- There are moments when by some strange impulse we contradict our past selves - fatal ...
... wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us ; it passes through us like a vibration , and we inflict what we have suffered . · 0- There are moments when by some strange impulse we contradict our past selves - fatal ...
Pagina 45
... man into a deceiver , and then reconcile him to the change ; for this reason— that the second wrong presents itself to him in the F guise of the only practicable right . The action which George Elict ( in propria persona ) . 45.
... man into a deceiver , and then reconcile him to the change ; for this reason— that the second wrong presents itself to him in the F guise of the only practicable right . The action which George Elict ( in propria persona ) . 45.
Pagina 49
... wrong end , and fancying our space wider than it is . -0- People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone , and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it . D An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a ...
... wrong end , and fancying our space wider than it is . -0- People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone , and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it . D An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a ...
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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