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- Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
- Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
- Since when was genius found respectable?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
- Sri Madhava
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
- John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
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