Consequences are unpitying.

Quote by George Eliot

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

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

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either...

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either...

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...

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

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.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite...

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite...

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

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...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails...

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails...