When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, an...
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There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though th...
