George Eliot Quotes About Genius
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Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
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Steady work turns genius to a loom.
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
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Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
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You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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