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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.


Eliot Spitzer

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GEORGE ELIOT The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT