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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.
-- Alexander Hamilton
1757-1804, American Statesman
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.
-- B. R. Hayden
1913-1980, American Poet
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.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
Talent is a
faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all
the faculties.
-- Francis Herbert Hedge
1846-1924, British
Philosopher
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Great genius
takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less
by assimilation than by fiction.
-- Heinrich Heine
1797-1856, German Poet,
Journalist
Nature is the
master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
-- Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author
The world is
always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it
does not know what to do with genius.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
Unpretending
mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak
flavor of genius in an essentially common person is
detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace
character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a
draught of fair water.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
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