George Eliot ( 10 of 69 )
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn
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.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
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?
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.
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.
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its read more
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
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.
