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William R. Alger

"To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it."

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"To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it."

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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

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

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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."

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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

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"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."

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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."

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"Words of love, are works of love."
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"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."
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"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."
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"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."
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"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."
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"He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men."
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