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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot

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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. – Paul Ricoeur

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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. – Anthony Trollope

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. – Billy Ray Cyrus

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Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. – Sir Robin Day

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So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, its a positive one. – Sidney Poitier

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. – William Cowper

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