Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Quote

We often, in our blindness, take a bit of our life, and look at it apart as an ended history.... but who shall say that the past is completed because it is past, any more than that we ourselves are completed because we must die?


Old Kensington (1873)


We often, in our blindness, take a bit of our life, and look at it apart as an ended history.... but who shall say that the past is completed because ...

We often, in our blindness, take a bit of our life, and look at it apart as an ended history.... but who shall say that the past is completed because ...

We often, in our blindness, take a bit of our life, and look at it apart as an ended history.... but who shall say that the past is completed because ...

We often, in our blindness, take a bit of our life, and look at it apart as an ended history.... but who shall say that the past is completed because ...