"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

Genius, Thought, Thoughts, Old

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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

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"Everything is sweetened by risk."

"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."

"Books are a finer world within the world."

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."

"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation."

"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."