For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. Auteur: George Eliot Copy Quote More from George Eliot “Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has …” “The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.” “Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secre…” “Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After …”