When we are young

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business-- that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives, and that we have a right to rant and foam at the muth when crossed. But we begin at last ot understand that these things are important only to our own consciousness, which is but a globule of dew on a rose-leaf, that at midday there will be no trace of.

George Eliot to Cara Bray

ND ND 1854

Childhood, Temper

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