It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

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.

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...

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

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

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it...

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

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...

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

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

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and...

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and...

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...

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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.