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Quote by George Eliot
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small thi

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

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. – Helen Gurley Brown

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