4 Quotes by George Eliot about experience
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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
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Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
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