“ What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? ”
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859). copy citation
| Author | George Eliot |
|---|---|
| Source | Adam Bede |
| Topic | love sorrow memories soulmates |
| Date | 1859 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/507/507-h/507-h.htm |
Context
“I have a fulness of strength to bear and do our heavenly Father's Will that I had lost before.»
Adam paused and looked into her sincere eyes.
«Then we'll never part any more, Dinah, till death parts us.»
And they kissed each other with a deep joy.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
CHAPTER LV Marriage Bells IN little more than a month after that meeting on the hill—on a rimy morning in departing November—Adam and Dinah were married.
It was an event much thought of in the village.” source
Adam paused and looked into her sincere eyes.
«Then we'll never part any more, Dinah, till death parts us.»
And they kissed each other with a deep joy.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
CHAPTER LV Marriage Bells IN little more than a month after that meeting on the hill—on a rimy morning in departing November—Adam and Dinah were married.
It was an event much thought of in the village.” source
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