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
along faces merry painless
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
imperfection painting insight
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
pain feelings ease
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.
jealousy pain eye
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
pain sorrow ears
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
pain grief baptism
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.
pain anger men
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
pain hatred cry
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
pain sadness feelings
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.
hope pain live-life
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
pain people literature
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
pain heart thinking
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.