No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is therefore in degree, not nature.
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
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Then indecision brings its own delays,<br/>And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.<br/>Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; <br/>What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; <br/>Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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