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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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It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
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... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
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As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
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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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To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
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It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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