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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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...
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A good solid bit of work lasts.
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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
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It's but little good you'll do, a watering the last year's crop
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
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It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient
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Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.