George Eliot Quotes

• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.

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• ‘Character’ says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms, ‘character is destiny.’

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• The dead level of provincial existence.

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• Our life is determined for us__and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only think of bearing what is laid uponus and doing what is given us to do.

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• In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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• The Catholics, bad harvests, and the mysterious fluctuations of trade__three evils mankind had to fear.

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• He would punish everyone who deserved it: why, he wouldn’t have minded being punished himself if he deserved it; but, then, he never did deserve it.

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• The mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

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• We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

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• There’s no pleasure i’ living, if you’re to be corked up for iver, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

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• A maggot must be born i’ the rotten cheese to like it.

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• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitute a man’s critical actions, it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character.

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• I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind.

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• Young souls, in such pleasant delirium as hers, are as unsympathetic as butterflies sipping nectar.

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• We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb?

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• He knew two kinds of Methodists__the ecstatic and the bilious.

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• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means__one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

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• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

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• If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

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• The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

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George Eliot (181)

Birth:	22nd November, 1819
Death:	22nd December, 1880
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Translator

About

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was an English novelist and translator. She wrote several novels include: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. In fact, her first major literary work was an English translation of Strauss's The Life of Jesus, which she completed after it had been left incomplete by another member of the "Rosehill Circle".

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