Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Quote by George Eliot

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

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...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

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...

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...

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

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

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

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of...

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of...

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

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

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

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

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...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

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...

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....