Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. George Eliot View this quote
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. George Eliot
George Eliot
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. George Eliot
It is difficult for a woman ever to try to be anything good when she is not believed in. George Eliot
It is not true that a man’s intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. George Eliot
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult. George Eliot
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been, to issues of longing and constancy. George Eliot
No man can be wise on an empty stomach. George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! George Eliot
Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. George Eliot
English novelist, essayist and translator
November 22nd, 1819 - December 22nd, 1880
