It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.


Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life (1869 edition)

George Eliot Quotes

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.