Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.
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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
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Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
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Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
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America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
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Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
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Less good from genius we may find than that from perseverance flowing; so have good grist at hand to grind, and keep the mill a-going.
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing.
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising.
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Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things
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