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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
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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."
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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
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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."
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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."
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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
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"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Love
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
Criticism
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
Business
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
Fortune
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