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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
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
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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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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
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Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
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Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
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It is never too late to be who you want to be.
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... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
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