Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they
know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
Stichwörter: mourning death-of-a-loved-one
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you’d think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour.
George EliotStichwörter: friendship compassion empathy grief
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
George EliotStichwörter: self-deception arrogance depravity
John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
George EliotStichwörter: submission generation-gap
It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
George EliotStichwörter: flesh emotion pride
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
George EliotStichwörter: distraction anxiety
She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
George EliotStichwörter: passion obsession desire mania
College mostly makes people like bladders—
just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.
Stichwörter: education college
A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
George EliotStichwörter: character fallibility
I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.
George EliotStichwörter: riches
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