Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things whic…

George Eliot
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Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing. ✨ George Eliot (2005). Four Novels of George Eliot, p.118, Wordsworth Editions
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Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing. ✨ George Eliot (2005). Four Novels of George Eliot, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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