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A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

George Eliot

Love, Two, Long

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

George Eliot

Pain, Agony, Vibrations

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

George Eliot

Art, Children, Ocean

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

George Eliot

Life, Spring, Wine

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

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The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

George Eliot

Artist, Novelists, Benefits

George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社

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Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

George Eliot

Art, Men, Fellow Man

George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

George Eliot

Appreciation, Men, Careers

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

George Eliot

Sex, Husband, Animal

George Eliot (1998). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, OUP Oxford

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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

George Eliot

Silly, Men, Unhappy

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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

George Eliot

Philosophy, Women, Facts

'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 11

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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

George Eliot

Death, Brother, Journey

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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

Death, Heart, Waiting

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress

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There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

George Eliot

Wine, Beer, Knowing

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.302

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The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

George Eliot

Eye, Men, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.272, Penguin

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A woman's rank
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
Therein alone she is royal.

George Eliot

Women, Lying, Royal

George Eliot “Poems”, Jazzybee Verlag

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autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

George Eliot

Mistake, Men, World

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.654

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Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

George Eliot

Beautiful, Children, Happy Times

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

George Eliot

Kindness, Self, Rivalry

George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot

Truth, Literature, Easy

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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

George Eliot

Teaching, Self, Taught

'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

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Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

George Eliot

Giving Up, Fate, Thinking

1860 The Mill on the Floss, bk.5, ch.1.

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Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

George Eliot

Love, Dark, Blue

George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

George Eliot

Enemy, Wavering, Belief

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3422, Delphi Classics

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I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.

George Eliot

Should Have, Mind, Looks

George Eliot (1900). “Works”

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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

George Eliot

Human Nature, Exception, Humans

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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Born: November 22, 1819
Died: December 22, 1880
Occupation: Novelist
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