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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

"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!"

"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
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"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."

"Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim."

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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