George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings...
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio
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Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions
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The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade
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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.