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Pain Quotes by George Eliot
- In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense…
- 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.
- A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
- Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -…
- We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in…
- But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
- Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
- For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
- 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.…
- So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering,…
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