It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
George Eliot Quotes
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
In every parting there is an image of death.
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers, but, dressed in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
‘Lohengrin’ to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the monotony.
Music sweeps by me as a messenger – Carrying a message that is not for me.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
