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
british-author late might
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
care
The law's made to take care o' raskills
carried courted cup deadly delicious escapes fools forever hope maiden whereas whom
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
advance animal degrade far leaving man present raise simply theory
If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present
duty finding happiness impressed
I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness
advantage
It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.
benefit melted trade
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade
sky brave grace
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.
country ability explanation
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
silly men unhappy
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
gratitude escaping matter
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
moving lovely arms
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.
known
It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.
stars persistence night
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.