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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, an...more

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There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though th...more

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Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...more