George Eliot's Quote - Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving

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

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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. – George Eliot

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot

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