Quote by George Eliot
We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to

We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when theyre gone. – George Eliot

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day

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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. – Rachel Carson

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. – Fawn M. Brodie

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The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. – John Randolph

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies

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