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- The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- 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)
- 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
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