Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Quote by George Eliot

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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

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...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be...

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made...

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made...

That grief is light which can take counsel.

That grief is light which can take counsel.