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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
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Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
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In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
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There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
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I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
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No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
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