Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Quote by George Eliot

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as...

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as...

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and...

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for...

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for...

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Happy is the house that shelters a friend