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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.
When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of read more
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all read more
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often
originates in the events of times.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often
originates in the events of times.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; read more
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
