#si

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. ↗

— George Eliot

#christ #doing #faith #jesus #look

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ↗

— George Eliot

#every #itself #like #motive #only

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ↗

— George Eliot

#bear #jealousy #lose #love #more

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. ↗

— George Eliot

#man #outside #within

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too. Blend them together for one potent brew; The magical spell to your dreams coming true. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #effort #faith #goals #hope

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ↗

— George Eliot

#each #expect #experience #lying #men

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. ↗

— George Eliot

#captivated #case #common #enough #his

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#intrusion #machine #open #server #up

Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanation—it is self-evident. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#attitude

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ↗

— George Eliot

#coarse #effect #faces #funeral #grating