O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!


The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton (ed. George Eliot, 2016) - ISBN: 9788892546851

George Eliot Quotes

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their...

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their...

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their...

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their...