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 Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife

 Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife

 Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

 Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way
  William James

 Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use
  William Hazlitt

 Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
  W. H. Auden

 Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains

 God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising.

 Great geniuses have the shortest biographies
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  Albert Einstein

 He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
  Robertson Davies

 He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero
  Johann Kaspar Lavater

 He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
  William Gilmore Simms

 He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.

 I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
  James Whistler


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