“Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève.
“Deemest thou labor
Only is earnest?
Grave is all beauty,
Solemn is joy.”
England my Mother, Part iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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