"After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think."
George Eliot
Middlemarch
I'm not that far in to Middlemarch yet, so I can't be certain about how Dorothea's statement is meant by Eliot to be taken. Is it meant to show her naiveté?
However, Eliot meant it, this statement puts me in mind of Malcolm Gladwell's distinctions between early and late bloomers. Without someone in the late bloomer's life who can see this truth, few late bloomers will ever bear fruit.
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