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George Eliot

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George Eliot (1819–1880) was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, poet, and journalist who wrote some of the most psychologically nuanced fiction of the Victorian era. Her masterwork *Middlemarch* is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language.

“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”

— George Eliot

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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”

— George Eliot

Anger

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

— George Eliot

Travel

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”

— George Eliot

Great

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”

— George Eliot

Gardening

“We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”

— George Eliot

Faith

“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”

— George Eliot

Strength

“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”

— George Eliot

Family

“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”

— George Eliot

God

“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”

— George Eliot

Great

“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

— George Eliot

History

“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”

— George Eliot

Dad

“In every parting there is an image of death.”

— George Eliot

Death

“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

Good

“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”

— George Eliot

Truth

“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”

— George Eliot

Pet

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

— George Eliot

Failure

“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”

— George Eliot

Home

“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.”

— George Eliot

Freedom

“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”

— George Eliot

Great

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

— George Eliot

Jealousy