No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Quote by George Eliot
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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George Eliot Quotes
- When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
- It is easy to say how we love new friends and what we think of them but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
- No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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