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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

George Eliot
Rivers, Waiting, Feelings
George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.152, London

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

George Eliot
Death, Heart, Waiting
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

George Eliot
Waiting, Providence
George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.80

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

George Eliot
Commitment, Waiting, Quality

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