Quote by George Eliot
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subs

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

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Mans extremity is Gods opportunity. – John Flavel

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Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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So many pictures, so little time! – Author Unknown

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