Logo
...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks fr

…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Emotions
category

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

Category:
Emotions

The heart is half a prophet. – Yiddish Proverb

Category:
Emotions

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. – Sonya Hartnett

Category:
Emotions

A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960

Category:
Emotions

Random Quotes

I wouldnt say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. – Bette Midler

Category:
Recognition

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window. – Proverb

Category:
Charity

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – Thomas Merton

Category:
good

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right. – John Donne

Category:
Faith