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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
― George Eliot

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birdsâ€� because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
― George Eliot

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”
― George Eliot

“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”
― George Eliot

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Selfishâ€� a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”
― George Eliot

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“..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.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.”
― George Eliot

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
― George Eliot

“If they want to flirt or initiate a friendship, they should carefully avoid giving the impression they are taking the initiative; men do not like tomboys, nor bluestockings, nor thinking women; too much audacity, culture, intelligence, or character frightens them.

In most novels, as George Eliot observes, it is the dumb, blond heroine who outshines the virile brunette; and in The Mill on the Floss, Maggie tries in vain to reverse the roles; in the end she dies and it is blond Lucy who marries Stephen. In The Last of the Mohicans, vapid Alice wins the hero’s heart and not valiant Cora; in Little Women kindly Jo is only a childhood friend for Laurie; he vows his love to curly-haired and insipid Amy.

To be feminine is to show oneself as weak, futile, passive, and docile. The girl is supposed not only to primp and dress herself up but also to repress her spontaneity and substitute for it the grace and charm she has been taught by her elder sisters. Any self-assertion will take away from her femininity and her seductiveness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Those who trust us educate us.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“76. David Hume â€� Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau � On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile � or, On Education, The Social Contract
78. Laurence Sterne � Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
79. Adam Smith � The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
80. Immanuel Kant � Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
81. Edward Gibbon � The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
82. James Boswell � Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier � Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison � Federalist Papers
85. Jeremy Bentham � Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe � Faust; Poetry and Truth
87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier � Analytical Theory of Heat
88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel � Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
89. William Wordsworth � Poems
90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge � Poems; Biographia Literaria
91. Jane Austen � Pride and Prejudice; Emma
92. Carl von Clausewitz � On War
93. Stendhal � The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
94. Lord Byron � Don Juan
95. Arthur Schopenhauer � Studies in Pessimism
96. Michael Faraday � Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
97. Charles Lyell � Principles of Geology
98. Auguste Comte � The Positive Philosophy
99. Honoré de Balzac � Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
100. Ralph Waldo Emerson � Representative Men; Essays; Journal
101. Nathaniel Hawthorne � The Scarlet Letter
102. Alexis de Tocqueville � Democracy in America
103. John Stuart Mill � A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
104. Charles Darwin � The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
105. Charles Dickens � Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
106. Claude Bernard � Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
107. Henry David Thoreau � Civil Disobedience; Walden
108. Karl Marx � Capital; Communist Manifesto
109. George Eliot � Adam Bede; Middlemarch
110. Herman Melville � Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
111. Fyodor Dostoevsky � Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
112. Gustave Flaubert � Madame Bovary; Three Stories
113. Henrik Ibsen � Plays
114. Leo Tolstoy � War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
115. Mark Twain � The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
116. William James � The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
117. Henry James � The American; The Ambassadors
118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche � Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals;The Will to Power
119. Jules Henri Poincaré � Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
120. Sigmund Freud � The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
121. George Bernard Shaw â€� Plays and Prefaces”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch