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Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

Error, Like, Memories, Past, Simply, Time

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Autumn, Delicious, Fall, Nature, Wedded

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Brooks, Charming, Flower, Inspirational, Passing, Woods

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Consciousness, Expensive, Manner, Self, Simplicity, Substitute

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

Boys, Fine, First Love, Richer, Spring, Yield

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Beautiful, Children, Happy Times, Time, Unknown

They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

Choicer, Grace, Lives, Lowliest, Suffering, Women

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Act, Graves, Light, Metaphor, Metaphors

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Everything, Hear, Judge, Judgement, Judging

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

Sensibility, Take, Use, Vision

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Empty, Man, Men, Wise

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Expect, Lying, Men, Should Have, Side, Strands

. . . it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Confession, Form, Living, Past, Response

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

Flutter, Fly, Way, Ways

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims. . . to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

Complexity, Growing, Inspiration, Mysterious, Promptings, Spring

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

Bonds, Escaping, Gratitude, Matter, Reasoning

A good horse makes short miles.

Equestrian, Good, Horse, Miles

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Animal, Men, Mistake, Superiority

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

Actors, Fifteen, Hero, Land, Years

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

Cheerfulness, Fortune, Think, Thinking

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