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Wisdom Quotes by George Eliot
- History repeats itself.
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
- Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
- Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
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- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold