But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Quote by George Eliot

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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may...

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between...

What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between...

â€œThe beauty in words is realized only by actions as the fragrance is already there...

â€œThe beauty in words is realized only by actions as the fragrance is already there...