George Eliot Quotes

• The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

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• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Union, Happiness, Freedom

• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Importance

• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Happiest, Nations

• The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Golden, Moments

• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

  George Eliot

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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.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Egoism, Affect, Sincerity

• The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Profession

• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Beginning, Compunction

• The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

  George Eliot

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• That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Person

• Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Science, Dogma

• Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Hemisphere, Rome, Funeral, Procession

• Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Nonsense, Ourselves, Quarreled

• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Novelists, Quality, Things

• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Delightful

• People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in People, Devout, Affectionate

• Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Words

• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Opposition, Persecution

• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Agony, Parting

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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