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- The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), from "Daniel Deronda"
- Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Excessive literary production is a social offense.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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