There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered…

Quote by George Eliot

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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

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

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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,...

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

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

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

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.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it...

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

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...

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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...

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

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

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...

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing...

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...