“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.”

— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876)

About George Eliot

1819 – 1880

English novelist, author of "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda".

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.”

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”