Margaret Fuller Quotes About Genius
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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