A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George EliotBut we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.
George EliotStichwörter: unseen frightened
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.
George EliotOnly in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George EliotStichwörter: love introspection parting agony
Perbuatan-perbuatan kita menentukan siapa diri kita sebesar sebagaimana kita menentukan perbuatan-perbuatan kita.
George EliotHe once called her his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man's brains.
George Eliotit seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.
George EliotPeople are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
George EliotStichwörter: truth people prejudice character reputation slander libel neighbor rumor
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
George EliotStichwörter: observations
There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive. She was blind, you see, to many things obvious to others - likely to tread in the wrong places, as Celia had warned her; yet her blindness to whatever did not lie in her own pure purpose carried her safely by the side of precipices where vision would have been perilous with fear.
George EliotStichwörter: insights
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