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Daniel Deronda (1876)
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
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It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.
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The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
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Heat is a great agent and a useful word, but considered as a means of explaining the universe, it requires an extensive knowledge of differences..
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
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Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.
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Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought.
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The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
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I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so.
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain upon the affections.
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I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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The embitterment of hatred is often as unaccountable to onlookers as the growth of devoted love, and it not only seems but is really out of direct relation with any outward causes to be alleged.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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George Eliot
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Born:
November 22, 1819
Died:
December 22, 1880
(aged 61)
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