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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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Essayist
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Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
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English
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Brothers are so unpleasant.
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The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.
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When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
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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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Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
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Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.
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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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But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
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History repeats itself.
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
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To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
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When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
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I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
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If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.
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Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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