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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
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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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You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.
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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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A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself it only requires opportunity.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
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