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Accept your genius and say what you think.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Common Sense
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Influence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Genius Borrows nobly.
Plagiarism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Choice
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Genius
Lord Essex

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Taste is the feminine of genius.
Taste
Lord Edward Fitzgerald

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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Motivation
John W. Foster

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Genius
Benjamin Franklin

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Genius
Buckminster Fuller

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It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
Unity
Charles A. Garfield

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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Students
Allen Ginsberg

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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Common Sense
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Children
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
Genius
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Books - Classics
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
Economy and Economics
Thomas Gray

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Genius
Francis Herbert Hedge

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Genius
Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Anthony Hope

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun