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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
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"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset."

"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."
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