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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 must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

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You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ↗

— George Eliot

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ↗

— George Eliot

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There are many victories worse than a defeat. ↗

— George Eliot

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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