Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of increasing that remorse which is so bitter to you. Fixed meditation may do a great deal towards defining our longing or dread. We are not always in a state of strong emotion, and when... Daniel Deronda - Page 188by George Eliot - 1909Full view - About this book
| 1876 - 592 pages
...eyes were directed towards the window, away from Deronda, who with quick comprehension said : — ' " Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of increasing that remorse which is so bitter to you. Fixed meditation may do a great deal towards defining our longing... | |
| George Eliot - England - 1876 - 444 pages
...flee and forever held back. She remembered Deronda's words- — they were continually reeurring in her thought : "Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of inereasing your remorse. .... Take your fear as a safeguard. It is like quickness of hearing. It may... | |
| George Eliot - England - 1876 - 614 pages
...her eyes were directed toward the window, away from Deronda, who, with quick comprehension, said — "Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of increasing tftat remorse which is so bitter to you. Fixed meditation may do a great deal towards defining our... | |
| George Eliot - England - 1876 - 462 pages
...Derouda's words of adviee: ^ •• Take the present suffering as a painful letling-in of light." T" urn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of inereasiei; that remorse whieh is so bttter to you." Gwendolen is made to sm and to auiiur remorse... | |
| james nisbet - 1877 - 824 pages
...Gwendolen ..." I am frightened at everything. I am frightened at myself.' . . . " Deronda said, ' Turu your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of increasing that remorse which is so bitter to you. Fixed meditation may do a great deal towards defining our longing... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...they are suffering in that way one must care for them more than for the comfortably self-satisfied.1 Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed...hearing. It may make consequences passionately present to you.1 No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love and desire to continue in, and make no effort... | |
| George Eliot - 1894 - 482 pages
...held back. She remembered Deronda's words: they were continually recurring in her thought, — " Txirn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed...remorse. . . . Take your fear as a safeguard. It is like VOL. III. — I2 1 78 DANIEL DERONDA. quickness of hearing. It may make consequences passionately present... | |
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