Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
Effective magic is transcendent nature.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
Correct English is the slang of prigs.
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
A good horse makes short miles.
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