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Quotation from Middlemarch by George Eliot
“for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
Middlemarch, Finale (Project Gutenberg text)
The last sentence of the novel, on the diffusive effect of Dorothea's life.
Citation: "for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." — George Eliot, Middlemarch, Finale (Project Gutenberg text). (id middlemarch-q8)
Portrait: George Eliot, por François D'Albert Durade, replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain.
