To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Quote by George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do...

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

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

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

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.

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

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

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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...

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...

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.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

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 years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and...

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and...

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...

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...