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Quote by George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity t

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

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The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot

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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. – Kenny Rogers

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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. – Carl Sandburg

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Im not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there its like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things. – Tina Turner

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