"Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice."
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"America has a genius for the encouragement of fame."
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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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"Nature alone is the master of true genius."
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"The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius."
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"Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself."
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"Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour."
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"But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire."
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"This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal."
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"I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full."
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"The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition."
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"We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is."
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"You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else."
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"Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things."
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"Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius."
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"A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship."
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"To make the common marvelous is the test of genius."
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"To genius life never grows commonplace."
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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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"The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness."
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