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
failure air people
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
childhood earth nostalgia
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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.
use pockets filling
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
language slang
correct English is the slang of prigs ...
friendship best-friend true-friend
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
stars home men
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
teacher responsibility power
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
future past ties
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
strong conceited self
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
motivational reality might
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
self objectivity vision
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
change life-is influence
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
justice kingdoms facts
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.