"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." ― George Eliot Topic(s): Great Tags: great, things More From George Eliot "Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest." "A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe." "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." More In Great "What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld "When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."― Robert Louis Stevenson "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."― Oliver Wendell Holmes