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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Page 80
... choose our own lot ; we must wait to be guided . We are led on , like the little children , by a way that we know not . It's good to live only a moment at a time , as I've read in one of Mr. Wesley's books . It isn't for you and me to ...
... choose our own lot ; we must wait to be guided . We are led on , like the little children , by a way that we know not . It's good to live only a moment at a time , as I've read in one of Mr. Wesley's books . It isn't for you and me to ...
Page 109
... choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment . Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart . You inquire into the stuffing of your couch when ...
... choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment . Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart . You inquire into the stuffing of your couch when ...
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... they are great enough to win you everything else . You have not even a vision of feelings by the side of which your shining virtues are mere darkness ! We can't choose happiness either for ourselves or for another Maggie Tulliver . I4I.
... they are great enough to win you everything else . You have not even a vision of feelings by the side of which your shining virtues are mere darkness ! We can't choose happiness either for ourselves or for another Maggie Tulliver . I4I.
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... choose happiness either for ourselves or for another we can't tell where that will lie . We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment , or whether we will renounce that , for the sake of obeying the divine ...
... choose happiness either for ourselves or for another we can't tell where that will lie . We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment , or whether we will renounce that , for the sake of obeying the divine ...
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... Choose whatever is best for all ' to ' Choose the Great Council , ' and ' the Great Council is the will of God . ' To Savonarola these were as good as identical pro- positions . The Great Council was the only practic- able plan for ...
... Choose whatever is best for all ' to ' Choose the Great Council , ' and ' the Great Council is the will of God . ' To Savonarola these were as good as identical pro- positions . The Great Council was the only practic- able plan for ...
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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