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Conscience Quotes by George Eliot
- Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;…
- Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before…
- Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be.…
- Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and…
- The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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