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"Genius is eternal patience."
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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."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"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."
"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
"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."
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
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