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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That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.
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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
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Animals are such agreeable friends.
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When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
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The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.
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The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness
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I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
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I'm not denying that women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.