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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.

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“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

All Quotes by George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

Life

“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

“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

“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”

— George Eliot

Great

“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”

— George Eliot

Nature

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

— George Eliot

Pet

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

— George Eliot

Death

“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”

— George Eliot

Death

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

— George Eliot

Marriage

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

— George Eliot

Failure

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

— George Eliot

Death

“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”

— George Eliot

Experience

“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

“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.”

— George Eliot

Happiness

“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

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

— George Eliot

Wisdom

“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”

— George Eliot

Experience

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

— George Eliot

Anger

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

— George Eliot

Hope

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

— George Eliot

Family