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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
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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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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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There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
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But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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Heaven help us, said the old religion the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
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Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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