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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Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
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To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.
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Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions
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Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio
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Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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You are never too old to be what you might have been.
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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.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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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.
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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.