“The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.”

— George Eliot , book Scenes of Clerical Life

"Janet's Repentance" Ch. 10 in Scenes of Clerical Life (1858); this has appeared in paraphrased form as: "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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