George Eliot Quotes

Biography: George Eliot is known for her novels "Middlemarch," "Silas Marner," an... more Biography: George Eliot is known for her novels "Middlemarch," "Silas Marner," and "The Mill on the Floss." Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, she adopted her pen name to ensure her literary work was taken seriously. Evans's novels are celebrated for their realism, psychological insight, and nuanced characters, reflecting deep social and moral concerns. less

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.""There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow.""It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.""Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.""We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.""The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.""Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.""It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of the ideal he has pictured for himself.""The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.""It is never too late to be tender to the young.""Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.""No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.""The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.""Selfish people are in a hurry to get happiness and do not pause to consider the happiness of others.""Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.""It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.""Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.""The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.""It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view""What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other"

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