Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
George EliotTags: vanity materialism ego
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 EliotTags: prayer self-justification
But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.
George EliotTags: procrastination
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George EliotTags: infatuation emotion
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 EliotTags: joy popularity ministry
What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?
George EliotTags: mediocrity instituions ministry
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 EliotYou 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 EliotTags: work enthusiasm career job
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 EliotTags: selflessness meekness
I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
George EliotTags: poverty materialism
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