Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Genius Quotes, Path Quotes

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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Genius can never despise labour.

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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

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You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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