There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.
--SPURGEON.
GENIUS.--Genius is an immense capacity for taking trouble.--CARLYLE.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.--LAVATER.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who
has but one talent for a genius.--HELPS.
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham
in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.--OUIDA.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a
forest of oaks.--BEECHER.
The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of
truth.--GOETHE.
Genius can never despise labor.--ABEL STEVENS.
And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower--
Its flash is still the same.
--LYDIA M. CHILD.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.--DRYDEN.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and
brings it out.--LADY BLESSINGTON.
One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
--POPE.
I know no such thing as genius,--genius is nothing but labor and
diligence.--HOGARTH.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing
meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.--LONGFELLOW.
Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a
palace.
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