Zitate von George Eliot
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Selig der Mann, der nichts zu sagen hat und davon absieht, diese Tatsache durch Worte zu beweisen.
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Schriftstellerin (England, 1819 - 1880).
George Eliot · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
George Eliot wäre heute 204 Jahre, 5 Monate, 5 Tage oder 74.667 Tage alt.
Geboren am 22.11.1819
Gestorben am 22.12.1880
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Weitere 120 Zitate von George Eliot
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Ignorance is a blind giant.
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In every parting there is an image of death.
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It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories, they are strongest for things a long way off.
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.