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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.

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

— George Eliot

Nature

All Quotes by George Eliot

“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”

— George Eliot

Best

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

— George Eliot

Gardening

“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

“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

— George Eliot

Knowledge

“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.”

— George Eliot

God

“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

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”

— George Eliot

Peace

“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”

— George Eliot

Death

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

— George Eliot

Death

“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”

— George Eliot

Truth

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

— George Eliot

History

“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”

— George Eliot

Wisdom

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

— George Eliot

Science

“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”

— George Eliot

Marriage

“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

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

— George Eliot

Anger

“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”

— George Eliot

Truth

“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

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”

— George Eliot

Life

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

— George Eliot

Dad