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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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.
form gratuitous prophecy
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
mistake atheism form
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
errors form humans
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
past confession form
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
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The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
hate hatred form
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
limbs force form
Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
strong argument formidable
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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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.
duty finding happiness impressed
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.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.