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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Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
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What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
trouble made
Trouble's made us kin.
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A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
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A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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You are never too old to be what you might have been.
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness