Mrs. Glegg paused, for speaking with much energy for the good of others is naturally exhausting. (George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss)
Frist's Hair Ball comments at Eschaton:
The outlook is bleak.... I never in my wildest dreams thought the United States of America could fall so quickly, with so little outcry.
Perhaps we need this lesson to understand why peoples throughout the world live under religious insanity and fascism without rising up.
posted by Arthur Mervyn @ 12:10 AM
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It was a time, according to a noticeable article in the Pioneer,
when the crying needs of the country might well counteract a reluctance to
public action on the part of men whose minds had from long experience acquired
breadth as well as concentration, decision of judgement as well as tolerance,
dispassionateness as well as energy - in fact, all those qualities which in the
melancholy experience of mankind have been the least disposed to share lodgings.
(George Eliot, Middlemarch)
Humbly inspired by George Eliot's The Impressions of Theophrastus Such - I am not worthy, I am not worthy ...
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