Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
George EliotYou know I have dutiesโโwe both have dutiesโโbefore which feeling must be sacrificed.
George EliotLife is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
George EliotAnd Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch
George Eliot