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Gives Quotes by George Eliot
- 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
- A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is…
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- 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…
- Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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