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  1. Page Number and Citation: 1. Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis: “…there is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent.”. Related Characters: Silas Marner (speaker) Related Themes: Page Number and Citation: 9. Cite this Quote.

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      Silas Marner discovers that his new home in Raveloe is...

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      Silas Marner returns home to find his gold gone and is...

  2. Silas Marner Famous Quotes Explained. 1. To have sought a medical explanation for this phenomenon would have been held by Silas himself, as well as by his minister and fellow-members, a willful self-exclusion from the spiritual significance that might lie therein. This passage, from Chapter 1, describes the reaction of Silas’s religious sect ...

  3. Silas Marner Quotes Showing 1-30 of 100. “Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”. ― George Eliot, Silas Marner. tags: insult. 92 likes. Like. “In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now.

    • George Eliot
    • 1861
  4. Silas Marner | Quotes. Share. 1. There is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent. Silas Marner, Part 1, Chapter 1. Silas Marner's journey from his youth in Lantern Yard to his happy old age in Raveloe begins with an act of betrayal. As he perceives it, this betrayal is ...

  5. Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe is a classic novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) and first published in 1861. Set in the early 19th century in the fictional village of Raveloe, the novel tells the story of Silas Marner, a weaver who is falsely accused of a crime and forced to leave his home and life in the nearby town of Lantern Yard.

  6. 39 Sourced Quotes. View all George Eliot Quotes. He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly; but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched — he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him. George Eliot. The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the ...

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  8. The money becomes a replacement for companionship, one that is easier to understand for a loner like Silas. “And the poor thoughts that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life.”. The town of Raveloe is bountiful and thriving, but the social order is staid and beginning to fester.

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