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'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

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
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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The bow always strung ... will not do.
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Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
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There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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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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Speech is often barren but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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