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
perseverance fear failure
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
moving past rome
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
life wisdom peace
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
god religious hands
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
spiritual country anger
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
success congratulations men
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
appreciation time book
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
sympathy marriage relation
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
ignorance literature hours
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
travel integrity journey
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
love evil effort
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
dog live-life animal
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
inspirational motivational work
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
wisdom simple compassion
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.