Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. – George Eliot
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”