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.

Quote by George Eliot

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite...

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

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

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

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of...

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want...

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want...

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the...

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the...