George Eliot

George Eliot

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate November 22, 1819

Zodiac Scorpio

Location Warwickshire,

Country England

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George Eliot Quotes

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

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Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me.

Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs.

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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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

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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

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But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably unlike them in this - that he could excuse others for thinking slightly of him, and could judge impartially of their conduct even when it told against him. [from Middlemarch, a quote my mother thinks describes the kind of man my father was]

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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

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Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

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