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"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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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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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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Genius can never despise labour.

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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

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The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

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You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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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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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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