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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You are never too old to be what you might have been.
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It is never too late to become what you might have been
late might
It is never to late to be what you might have been
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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ...
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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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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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.