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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
Genius
Discipline
First
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot
Ideas
Rest
Trouble
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
Thought
Sun
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot
Hobbies
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot
Desire
Future
Past
Will
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
Conviction
Literary
Production
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
Jokes
Taste
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
Friends
Smile
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
Defeat
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot
Hatred
Injury
Sense
Will
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot
Country
Storms
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
Fire
Jealousy
Needs
Passion
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
Hope
Despair
First
Moments
Sorrow
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot
Life
Public
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
Life
Failure