One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. - George Gissing
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
- George Gissing
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by … - George Gissing
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by …
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. - George Gissing
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
Have the courage of your desire. - George Gissing
Have the courage of your desire.
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it. - George Gissing
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering… - George Gissing
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering…
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. - George Gissing
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter. - George Gissing
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. - George Gissing
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
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