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

Quote by George Eliot

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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a...

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a...

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

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...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

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...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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....

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...