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Quote by George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot

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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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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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He was as great as a man can be without morality. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. – Confucius

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. – Saint Augustine

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The past is a great place and I dont want to erase it or to regret it, but I dont want to be its prisoner either. – Mick Jagger

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