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Schriftstellerin (England, 1819 - 1880).

George Eliot · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

George Eliot wäre heute 204 Jahre, 4 Monate, 29 Tage oder 74.660 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.11.1819
Gestorben am 22.12.1880
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.

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• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitute a man's critical actions, it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character.

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• Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

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• Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.

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• Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

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• She, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have been used so often as the inspiring trumpet-calls of men-the words God, Immortality, Duty-pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. Never, perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensing Law.

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• Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

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• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

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• The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it is the finest in the world.

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• The dead level of provincial existence.

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• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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• The idea of God, so far as it has been a high spiritual influence, is the ideal of a goodness entirely human.

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• The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

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• The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.

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• There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

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• There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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• There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

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