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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A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink . . .
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Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . .
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade
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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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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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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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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.