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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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But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
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Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
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No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
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Heaven help us, said the old religion the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
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I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.
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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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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
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When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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In every parting there is an image of death.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
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