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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
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Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
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The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
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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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It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
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The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
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But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
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A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. —WORDSWORTH.
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
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