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Eiman
is on page 550 of 912
"You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honourable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that - if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it.”
— Dec 10, 2025 05:22AM
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Eiman
is on page 705 of 912
‘Strange, piteous conflict in the soul of this unhappy man, who had longed for years to be better than he was - who had taken his selfish passions into discipline and clad them in severe robes, so that he had walked with them as a devout quire, till now that a terror had risen among them, and they could chant no longer, but threw out their common cries for safety.’
— Dec 18, 2025 04:12AM
Eiman
is on page 700 of 912
‘He had never liked the makeshifts of poverty, and they had never before entered into his prospects for himself; but he was beginning now to imagine how two creatures who loved each other, and had a stock of thoughts in common, might laugh over their shabby furniture, and their calculations how far they could afford butter and eggs.’
— Dec 18, 2025 03:51AM
Eiman
is on page 696 of 912
“I don't judge you and say, he is wicked, and I am righteous. God forbid. I don't know everything. A man may do wrong, and his will may rise clear out of it, though he can't get his life clear. That's a bad punishment. If it is so with you, - well, I'm very sorry for you. But I have that feeling inside me, that I can't go on working with you.”
— Dec 18, 2025 03:33AM
Eiman
is on page 665 of 912
“I shall never forget what you have done,” Fred answered. “I can't say anything that seems worth saying - only I will try that your goodness shall not be thrown away.”
The conversation about Mary, between Mr Farebrother and Fred at the gambling inn….Iconic
— Dec 15, 2025 04:49AM
The conversation about Mary, between Mr Farebrother and Fred at the gambling inn….Iconic
Eiman
is on page 640 of 912
‘It was as if a fracture in delicate crystal had begun, and he was afraid of any movement that might make it fatal. The first great disappointment had been borne: the tender devotedness and docile adoration of the ideal wife must be renounced, and life must be taken up on a lower stage of expectation, as it is by men who have lost their limbs.’
The beginning of a fracture in an initially happy marriage…
— Dec 15, 2025 03:53AM
The beginning of a fracture in an initially happy marriage…
Eiman
is on page 635 of 912
‘At that moment the parting was easy to bear: the first sense of loving and being loved excluded sorrow. It was as if some hard icy pressure had melted, and her consciousness had room to expand; her past was come back to her with larger interpretation.’
— Dec 15, 2025 03:49AM
Eiman
is on page 625 of 912
“I shall work away at the first thing that offers. I suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope…There are certain things which a man can only go through once in his life; and he must know some time or other that the best is over with him.”
— Dec 15, 2025 03:47AM
Eiman
is on page 610 of 912
‘He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all.’
A very subtle kind of hypocrisy that we must be wary of
— Dec 15, 2025 03:45AM
A very subtle kind of hypocrisy that we must be wary of
Eiman
is on page 600 of 912
…With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.’
— Dec 15, 2025 03:43AM
Eiman
is on page 600 of 912
‘The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases…intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past...
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— Dec 15, 2025 03:42AM
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