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Quotes by George Eliot

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy, Bk III
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
 
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''There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music'' 

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: The Mill on the Floss
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It is never to late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
 
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A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones...

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: Silas Marner
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: The Mill on the Floss, bk. 4, ch. 3, 1860.
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Necessity does the work of courage.

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: Romola, 1863
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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 15 (1871–72).
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How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 18 (1871), of the Reverend Walter Tyke.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: Daniel Deronda, bk. 4, ch. 33, 1876.
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