Maxioms by George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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.
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of read more
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the read more
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
