Quote by George Eliot
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it per

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. – Indira Gandhi

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana

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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. – Charlotte Bronte

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The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance. – Conrad Black

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Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. – Author Unknown

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