Acting is slow and poor to what we go through within.
 George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876). copy citation

add
Author George Eliot
Source Daniel Deronda
Topic
Date 1876
Language English
Reference
Note
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7469/pg7469-images.html

Context

“Is there any pain like seeing what ought to be the best things in life turned into the worst? All those opposite feelings were meeting and pressing against each other, and took up all my strength. No one could act that. Acting is slow and poor to what we go through within. I don't know how I called a cab. I only remember that I was in it when I began to think, 'I cannot tell Ezra; he must not know.'" "You are afraid of grieving him?" Mrs. Meyrick asked, when Mirah had paused a little.” source