More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Quote by George Eliot

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as...

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation,...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation,...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

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.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

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...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and...

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and...

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as...

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequences are unpitying.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

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...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

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...

A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a...

A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a...

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have...

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have...