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Quote by George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petr

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – 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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Travel
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George Eliot
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Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

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Sympathy
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George Eliot
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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Grief
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George Eliot
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The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Experience

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. – John Keats

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Experience

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. – Sigmund Freud

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Experience

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

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Experience

Random Quotes

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. – Marco Rubio

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Business

The skull is natures sculpture. – David Bailey

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Nature

To me, the blues is an infection. I dont think its necessarily a melancholy thing the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. Its more reflective it reminds you to feel. – Mick Fleetwood

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positive

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. – Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica

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Cities