It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.
Weitere Zitate von George Eliot
Zum Autor"Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are."
"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."
"When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child."
"Tis what I love determines how I love."
"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?"
"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"