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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Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

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...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

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...