George Eliot ( 10 of 69 )
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all read more
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in read more
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make read more
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
