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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
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Changing

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I love words they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
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It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
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In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
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Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
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Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
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