Quote by George Eliot
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not th

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

Other quotes by George Eliot

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Obscurity
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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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The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises. – Source Unknown

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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. – Susan Sontag

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We can only make ourselves the victim. – Gillian Anderson

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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. – Leonard Cohen

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Think not I am what I appear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. – H. L. Mencken

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Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet. – Gene Perret

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I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. – Gene Perret

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