George Eliot Quotes
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot 1819-1880, English Author, Adam Bede
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See {587546} for a more modern German version of this thought.
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There are many who disagree with this notion. They instead believe that circumstances and conditions will shape a great person’s actions. If character determined action and behavior, it would be very difficult to explain a great man who changes his mind on a major issue. Was the flip-flop the result of a radical character change? If not who would the same character produce two different outcomes with the same person?
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 (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England and most of her works are set there. They are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
