Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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