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The greatest genius is the most indebted person. (Alger William R.)
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. (Alger William R.)
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius. (Alger William R.)
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. (Alger William R.)
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. (Alger William R.)
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. (Alger William R.)
Accept your genius and say what you think. (Alger William R.)
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. (Alger William R.)
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. (Alger William R.)
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. (Alger William R.)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. (Alger William R.)
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth. (Alger William R.)
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. (Alger William R.)
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. (Alger William R.)
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. (Alger William R.)
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. (Alger William R.)
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. (Alger William R.)
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