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George Eliot

1819 - 1880. Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot. English novelist, author of "Daniel Deronda", "Middlemarch", "The Mill on the Floss".

1. "Whatever limits us we call Fate."

source: "The Conduct of Life"

categories: Destiny and Fate

2. "What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

source: "Middlemarch"

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Trust

3. "We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Youth and Age

4. "We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

categories: Various

5. "Those who trust us educate us."

categories: Trust -:- Education

6. "These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age

7. "There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."

source: "Daniel Deronda"

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Memory

8. "The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."

source: "Silas Marner"

categories: Freedom and Servitude

9. "The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families."

source: "Silas Marner"

categories: Health and Alcohol

10. "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."

source: "Daniel Deronda"

categories: Success and Fame -:- Work and Laziness

11. "Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

12. "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

source: "Adam Bede"

categories: Human

13. "Nature repairs her ravages, - repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Work and Laziness

14. "More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Human -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

15. "Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness."

source: "Middlemarch"

categories: Marriage

16. "It is never too late to be what you might have been."

categories: Success and Fame

17. "Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity."

source: "Adam Bede"

categories: Reality and Imagination

18. "I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man -:- Family and Loneliness

19. "Humor is also a way of saying something serious."

categories: Wit and Humor

20. "Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it."

source: "Adam Bede"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Various

21. "High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Success and Fame

22. "High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes."

source: "The Mill on the Floss"

categories: Happiness

23. "Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."

source: "Daniel Deronda"

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Manners and Ethics

24. "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

source: "Middlemarch"

categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Pain and Tears

25. "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."

categories: Oration and Silence

26. "Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."

source: "Scenes of Clerical Life"

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Defeates and Mistakes

27. "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticism."

source: "Scenes of Clerical Life"

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Nature and Animals -:- Question and Problem


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