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Thomas Gray

"Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations."

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"Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations."

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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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"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 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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"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 nothing but continued attention."

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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."

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"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

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"Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."
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"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."
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"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
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"Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today."
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"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight."
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"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."
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"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes."
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"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
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"'Tis folly to be wise."
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"He gave to misery (all he had) a tear."
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