George Eliot Quotes

• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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• No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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• No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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• No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

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• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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• Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

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• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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• Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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• Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

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• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

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• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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• It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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• It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

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• It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

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• Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

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• In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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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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