James Russell Lowell Quotes About Genius
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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To genius life never grows commonplace.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.
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Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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