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
passion thinking mind
There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.
patience passion flare-up
The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.
mistake forever secret
There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.
self religion knows
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
lands mortals poor reasoning wrong
Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions
breeds cases climb hatred inflict injuries injury
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.
achievement brought great series
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
british-author great jokes strain taste
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
death
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.