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" But our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never : they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness ; and that dreadful vitality of deeds... "
Romola, by George Eliot - Page 77
by Mary Ann Evans - 1863
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THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE

SMITH - 1862 - 924 pages
...predilections; still, it was a slight matter, not worth dwelling on with any emphasis, and in those moments he had lost his confidence in fortune. The feverish...Tito for the first time. He was going back to his lodgiil^s in the Piazza di San Giovanni, but he avoided passing through the Mercato Vecchio, which...
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Romola : in Two Volumes, Volume 1

George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1863 - 658 pages
...impelled his mind to travel into the future had given place to a dull, regretful lassitude. He cared BO much for the pleasures that could only come to him...back to his lodgings in the Piazza di San Giovanni, but he avoided passing through the Mercato Vecchio, which was his nearest way, lest he should see Tessa....
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Novels [of George Eliot], Volume 2

George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeda never : they have an indestructible life both in and out of our conscious- ; ness ; and that dreadful vitality of deeds was pressing hard on Tito for i the first time....
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The Living Age, Volume 115

1872 - 894 pages
...actual world. " Our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never:...indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness." Other teachers transfigure and transmute human joys and sorrows, fears and hopes, loves and hatreds,...
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Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...raised must make a likeness in human building that will be broader and deeper than all possible change. Our deeds are like children that are born to us ;...deeds was pressing hard on Tito for the first time. Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life...
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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...raised must make a likeness in human building that will be broader and deeper than all possible change. Our deeds are like' children that are born to us ;...deeds was pressing hard on Tito for the first time. Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life...
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Self-help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1876 - 448 pages
...they lord it o'er us. With looks of beauty and words of good." — John Sterling. " Children maybe strangled. but Deeds never: they have an indestructible life, both in and out of our consciousness." — George Eliot. " There is no action of man in this life, which is not the beginning of so long a...
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The Works of George Eliot: Romola

George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1878 - 464 pages
...shrinking from what his fellowmen called obligations. But our deeds are like children that are bom to us ; they live and act apart from our own will....back to his lodgings in the Piazza di San Giovanni, but he avoided passing through the Mercato Vecchio, which was his nearest way, lest he should see Tessa....
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Studies in Literature, 1789-1877

Edward Dowden - English literature - 1878 - 542 pages
...actual world. " Our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never...indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness." Other teachers transfigure and transmute human joys and sorrows, fears and hopes, loves and hatreds,...
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Homiletical Commentary on the Minor Prophets, Volume 221

James Wolfendale - Bible - 1879 - 762 pages
...method of life. Her habits oecome theirs, and her character i« visibly repeat«! in them" [Smiles]. Children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have...indestructible life, both in and out of our consciousness [Gtorge Eliot]. Ver. 6, 7. Affliction. The hedge stops or gives a turn. God, in pursuance of his covenant,...
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