“This is the highest touch of beauty in a character. What is it that most charms us in a friend? It is that he can read the transient expression in our face, and modify himself to suit the feeling we are ourselves but half conscious of possessing; it is that he knows when to be silent and when to speak; it is that he never mistakes, but sees us true, when all the world is wrong about us; it is that he can distinguish the cynicism of tenderness from that of malice, and believe our love though we try to mask our heart. Such a friend has not only power of character, but beauty of character.”
STOPFORD BROOKE
“We are over-hasty to speak – as if God did not manifest Himself by our silent feeling, and make His love felt through ours.”
GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]
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