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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
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We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.