Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

George Eliot

Stichwörter: vanity materialism ego



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Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

George Eliot

Stichwörter: prayer self-justification



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But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

George Eliot

Stichwörter: procrastination



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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

George Eliot

Stichwörter: infatuation emotion



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Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

George Eliot

Stichwörter: joy popularity ministry



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What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

George Eliot

Stichwörter: mediocrity instituions ministry



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what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

George Eliot

Stichwörter: career ministry



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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.

George Eliot

Stichwörter: work enthusiasm career job



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In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was absolute. He never, indeed, chose to be absolute except on some one else’s behalf.

George Eliot

Stichwörter: selflessness meekness



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I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

George Eliot

Stichwörter: poverty materialism



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