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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The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.
past joy sorrow
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
oddities sorrow faults
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.
past self sorrow
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
sorrow despair young
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
pain sorrow ears
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
sky childhood sorrow
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
sublime sorrow delight
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
memories childhood sorrow
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
women sorrow half
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
sorrow trying failing
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
heart sorrow trouble
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
love peace sorrow
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
heart people sorrow
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.