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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. (Alger William R.)
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. (Alger William R.)
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. (Alger William R.)
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way. (Alger William R.)
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police. (Alger William R.)
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. (Alger William R.)
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Alger William R.)
To see things in the seed is genius. (Alger William R.)
To see things in the seed is genius. (Alger William R.)
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. (Alger William R.)
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. (Alger William R.)
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. (Alger William R.)
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. (Alger William R.)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. (Alger William R.)
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. (Alger William R.)
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. (Alger William R.)
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. (Alger William R.)
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead. (Alger William R.)
Genius is eternal patience. (Alger William R.)
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. (Alger William R.)
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. (Alger William R.)
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