"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
― George Eliot
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― George Eliot
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- "I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature."― Muhammad Iqbal
- "What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."― Alexis de Tocqueville
- "Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."― Lucretius