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George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
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To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities it is an expansion of the animal existence.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
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The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
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Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
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I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
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The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
George Eliot
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
George Eliot
