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George Eliot

  • George Eliot

    Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, and translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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

Tags: Love, Jealousy, Lose
George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Tags: Children, Cannot, Nation
George Eliot

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

Tags: Failure, Fear, Against
George Eliot

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Tags: Success, Thinks, Profession
George Eliot

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Tags: Love, Better, Outside
George Eliot

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Tags: Men, Friends, Virtuous
George Eliot

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Tags: Humility, She, Whose
George Eliot

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

Tags: End, Father, Bit
George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Tags: Dead, Until, Forgotten
George Eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

Tags: Sleep, Pay, Interest
George Eliot

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