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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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Obscurity
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Funerals
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. – Aristotle

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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Moliere

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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