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George Eliot Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F8%2F81%2FGeorge_Eliot_at_30_by_Fran%25C3%25A7ois_D%2527Albert_Durade.jpg&hash=8f91fb4b1185fbadbfb39cf3038dab6f8d39815d)
An English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.
Here are some famous quotes by George Eliot.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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'Tis what I love determines how I love.
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What makes life dreary is want of motive.
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Time like money is measured by our needs.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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Better a false belief than no belief at all.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!
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Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
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Our words have wings but fly not where we would.
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Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
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I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.
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It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.
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It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.
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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
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A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.
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There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to revere.
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
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Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.
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Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
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The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
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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 they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.