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Quotes by George Eliot
George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, emerged as one of the most significant novelists of the Victorian era. Renowned for her keen psychological insight and detailed portrayals of rural life, Eliot's seminal works, including "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner," challenge societal norms and explore complex human emotions. Breaking boundaries in a male-dominated literary world, she adopted a pen name to ensure her voice was heard. Eliot’s legacy endures, inspiring readers and writers alike to contemplate the intricacies of human experience and moral depth.
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot
"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
George Eliot"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."
George Eliot
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
George Eliot
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
George Eliot"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."
George Eliot
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."
George Eliot"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."
George Eliot
"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
George Eliot"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
George Eliot
"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
George Eliot"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
George Eliot"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
George Eliot
"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."
George Eliot"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot
"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
George Eliot