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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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
beautiful fall ignorance
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
ignorance acquaintance persons
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
ignorance fighting fog
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
ignorance may pills
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
ignorance thinking evil
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
ignorance
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
sports ignorance knowledge
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
ignorance common hours
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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