Quote by George Eliot
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which non

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

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The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. – Arthur J. Goldberg

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Balance is the enemy of art. – Richard Eyre

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. – G. K. Chesterton

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