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Zitat des Tages von George Eliot:

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

George Eliot

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

George Eliot

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

George Eliot

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

George Eliot

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

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.

George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

George Eliot

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

George Eliot

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.

George Eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot