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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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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. – George Eliot

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Infatuation
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George Eliot
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Hurt, Injury
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes its filled with wisdom. Sometimes its filled with feet. – Robert Orben

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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Wisdom is a sacred communion. – Victor Hugo

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Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. – Margaret Courtney

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Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze — ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether. – Terri Guillemets, “Free but homesick,” 2005

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. – John F. Kennedy

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power

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength. – Don King

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