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- Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
- Chang Ch'ao
- Genius is childhood recaptured.
- Bauldlaire
- The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago.
- Dorothea Brande
- He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
- Henry Taylor
- Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
- Barry Duncan
- All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
- Anna Jameson
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