Quote by George Eliot
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. – Alexander Cannon

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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. – Sir Thomas Browne

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