Faults Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fault Unlovely Faults Grief Hard Hard Sorrow Irritating Irritating Fault Oddities Shortcomings Sorrow Unlovely Oddity
“Dont pity people who don't pity themselves, it's unpleasant to repeatedly hear how miserable and unfortunate they are.” — Ilan Grif Copy Share Image
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Stop constantly pity other people for how unfortunate and miserable they are, it's unpleasent to hear that repeadetly. A man who do not pity… — Fergus MacDermott Copy Share Image
“And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a fault for which I must be punished, but as an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. They err who would assert that invariably this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter recognize therein… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
How come you don't feel that magic in the air? I guess I knew you'll never be there. I guess I knew you never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them. — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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