George Eliot Quotes

• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds

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• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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• Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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• Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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• All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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• An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

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• Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

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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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• Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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• Consequences are unpitying.

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• Excessive literary production is a social offense.

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• Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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• Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

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• But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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• And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

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• The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

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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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