The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
Quotes by George Eliot
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
''There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music''
It is never to late to be what you might have been.
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones...
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Necessity does the work of courage.
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Help




