George Eliot Quotes

• Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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• We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

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• We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

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

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• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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• To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

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• There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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  Tags in Wider, Private, People

• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

  George Eliot

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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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• There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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• The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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• The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

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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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