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George Eliot

George Eliot

British Author

Born: Nov 22, 1819

Died: Dec 22, 1880

Great Life Love Man Our Will

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Breed is stronger than pasture. George Eliot

Stronger Than Pasture Breed

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. George Eliot

Death Our Severity Tenderness Never Repent

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. George Eliot

Jealousy Heart Satisfied Fold Would Detect Never Short Anything

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? George Eliot

Good Sometimes Rage Quarrel Nonsense Friends Get Being

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. George Eliot

Our Must Find Been Duties Might Us

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot

History Travel Strange Past Visible Ancestral City Seems Trophies Afar Where Rome Procession Moving Whole Hemisphere Images Funeral Gathered

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. George Eliot

You Quality Own Others Paradoxes Fingers Dead Make Caustic Handle May Order Happen Which Them Your Play Things

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot

Great Jokes Humor Great Strain Affections Taste Different Strain

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. George Eliot

Future Will Past No Future Ties Break Desire

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. George Eliot

Nature Triumphant Quarrels Private Dullness Reason

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. George Eliot

Conviction Excessive Offence Literary Social Production

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot

Marriage Sympathy Relation Must Either Conquest

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. George Eliot

Life Determined Private Been Private Life Which Public Public Life Wider

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. George Eliot

Happiness Woman Heart Made Recipe Else Pressed Must Small Cakes Feet Like Fixed Size Chinese Larger Her

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. George Eliot

Experience Philosophy Paradoxical Phrases Talk Current Human Human Experience Means Even

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. George Eliot

Soul Consists Unbelief Accepting Denying Them Belief

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! George Eliot

Luxury Giving Must Know Poor

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot

Mind Various Points Look Narrow Subject Cannot Which View

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