"Genius is intellect constructive."
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"Intellect is stronger than cannon."
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"If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of."
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"...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still."
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"Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect."
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"We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement."
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"It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment."
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"... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect."
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"God cannot be realized through intellect."
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"It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it."
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"The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason."
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"Human intellect is incurably abstract."
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"Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses."
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"Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart."
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"The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress."
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"When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good."
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"As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world."
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"For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain."
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"You have a dizzying intellect."
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"Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect"
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