George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

George Eliot was a pioneering English novelist known for her deep psychological insight and exploration of social issues in works like Middlemarch.

Born
November 22, 1819
Died
December 22, 1880
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"No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled."

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"If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour."

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"The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence."

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"As leopard feels at home with leopard."

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"Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough."

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"... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect."

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"To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise."

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"... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading."

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"If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner."

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"If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it."

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"It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand."

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"The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots."

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"... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences."

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"People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes."

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"To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all."

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"There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy."

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"I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!"

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"The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves."

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