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Quote by George Eliot
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of la

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

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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

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. – Wayne Dyer

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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. – Maria Weston Chapman

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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. – Anwar El-Sadat

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That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didnt realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera. – Kent McCord

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands. – W.S. Merwin

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. – Pericles

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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. – George Carlin

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