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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
 Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
 Seduced me first to me a wicked player.  
 Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
 Seduced me first to me a wicked player. 
Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
 Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest 
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; read more 
 Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest 
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he 
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every 
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious. 
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
 To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men 
of genius--the men of reasoning and the read more 
 To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men 
of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.