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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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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."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."
"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
"The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse."
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