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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
English novelist [more author details]
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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George Eliot
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
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George Eliot
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
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George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
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George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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George Eliot
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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George Eliot, 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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George Eliot, Middlemarch
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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George Eliot, Middlemarch
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
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George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

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