Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Genius
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.
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Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
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The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.
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