I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
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George Eliot
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About George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, 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 wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was descr…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by George EliotMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have …
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.