“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
― Markings
― Markings
“Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.”
― Markings
― Markings
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric 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.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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