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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. (Alger William R.)
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. (Alger William R.)
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. (Alger William R.)
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. (Alger William R.)
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. (Alger William R.)
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. (Alger William R.)
Genius is independent of situation. (Alger William R.)
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. (Alger William R.)
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius. (Alger William R.)
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. (Alger William R.)
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. (Alger William R.)
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. (Alger William R.)
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. (Alger William R.)
Genius, when young, is divine. (Alger William R.)
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. (Alger William R.)
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. (Alger William R.)
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. (Alger William R.)
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