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... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

George Eliot

Distance, Men, Squares

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

George Eliot

Ambition, Vision, Ease

George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

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... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

George Eliot

Majority, Argument, Jokes

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... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

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Selfish, Gentleman, Vices

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

George Eliot

Suffering, Morality, Motive

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.538, Wordsworth Editions

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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

George Eliot

Skepticism, Standstill

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Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

George Eliot

Thinking, Guilt, Grit

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, Wordsworth Editions

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... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

George Eliot

Furniture, World, Dinner

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2255, Delphi Classics

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... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

George Eliot

Art, Light, Mind

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

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How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Heaven, Mind, Earth

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2966, Delphi Classics

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When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

George Eliot

Grateful, Writing, Speech

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.247

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We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

George Eliot

Thinking, America, Might

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

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I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

George Eliot

Wall, Pain, Lying

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

George Eliot

Thinking, People, Growing

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.356, Wordsworth Editions

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Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

George Eliot

Coarse, Subtle, Impression

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

George Eliot

Son, Two, Hundred

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.28

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The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

George Eliot

Triumph, Human Nature, Creeds

George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.64, 谷月社

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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

Jesus, Prayer, Pain

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You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot

Girl, Men, Imagination

"Daniel Deronda".

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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

George Eliot

Relationship, Happiness, Freedom

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.393, 谷月社

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot

Wish, Literature, Exclusion

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.123, Oxford Paperbacks

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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

George Eliot

Feelings, Feeling Lost, Littles

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

George Eliot

Thinking, Literature, Murder

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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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.

George Eliot

Love, Heart, Caring

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.690, 谷月社

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

George Eliot

Ideas, Literature, Trouble

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.502

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