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Genius must be
born, and never can be taught.
-- John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet,
Dramatist, Critic
Great wits are
sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their
bounds divide.
-- John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet,
Dramatist, Critic
Time, place,
and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be
born; and never can be taught.
-- John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet,
Dramatist, Critic
Genius is one
percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-- Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor,
Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
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His genius he
was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of
inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
-- Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor,
Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Genius at
first is little more than a great capacity for receiving
discipline.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
When Nature
has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
In every work
of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come
back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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