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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Every child is born a genius.
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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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