George Eliot Quotes About Wisdom
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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History repeats itself.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
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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 still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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