I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
¶ Adam Bede (1859)
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George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist [pseud. of Mary Ann Evans]
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid: wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
¶ Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
We must not inquire too curiously into motives…. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
¶ Middlemarch, ch. 2 (1871)
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
¶ Middlemarch (1871)
(last sentence of the book)
The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men; and I should imagine that neither Luther nor John Bunyan, for example, would have satisfied the modern demand for an ideal hero, who believes nothing but what is true, feels nothing but what is exalted.
¶ Scenes of Clerical Life, "Janet's Repentence," ch. 10 (1858)
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
¶ The Impressions of Theophrastus Such, ch. 4 (1879)
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
¶ The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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