George Eliot

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June 15, 2020

Name: George Eliot
Born: 11/22/1819
Died: 12/22/1880 (61 years old)
Occupation: Novelist, poet, journalist, translator

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), 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 wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

Birth Name: Mary Anne Evans

Alias: George Eliot

Birth Place: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

Death Place: Chelsea, London, England

Source: Wikipedia

George Eliot quotes :

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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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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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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In every parting there is an image of death.
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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
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