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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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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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. – George Eliot

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In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967