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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all."
"Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster."
"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."
"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant."
"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."
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