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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"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!"
"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
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"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all."
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it."
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