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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

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Genius is its own end.

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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

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Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

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The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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