“We are much bound to them that do succeed,
But, in a more pathetic sense are bound
To such as fail.”
But, in a more pathetic sense are bound
To such as fail.”
JEAN INGELOW
“Look thou with pity on a brother’s fall,
But dwell not with stern anger on his fault;
The grace of God alone holds thee, holds all;
Were that withdrawn, thou too would’st swerve and halt.”
But dwell not with stern anger on his fault;
The grace of God alone holds thee, holds all;
Were that withdrawn, thou too would’st swerve and halt.”
EDMESTON
“Without this fellow-feeling how are we to get enough patience and charity towards our stumbling, falling companions in the long changeful journey? And there is but one way in which a strong determined soul can learn it – by getting his heart-strings bound round the weak and erring, so that he must share not only the outward consequence of their error, but their inward suffering. This is a long and hard lesson.”
GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]
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