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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Adversity
Horace

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Adversity
Horace

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Stupidity
Elbert Hubbard

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Genius
Victor Hugo

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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
Genius
David Hume

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Genius
Aldous Huxley

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Mediocrity
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Genius is initiative on fire.
Creativity
George Holbrook Jackson

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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Labor
Joseph Joubert

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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Genius
Arthur Koestler

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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Writers and Writing
Jean De La Bruyere

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To see things in the seed is genius.
Genius
Lao-Tzu

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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Genius
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Opportunity
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Confusion
Larry Leissner

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Insanity
Oscar Levant

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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Pride
Oscar Levant

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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Genius
George Henry Lewes

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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Hatred
Jerry Lewis

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Speakers and Speaking
Joe E. Lewis

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Genius
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
Genius
Abraham Lincoln

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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Procrastination
Mary Todd Lincoln

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Freedom
James Russell Lowell

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Genius
James Russell Lowell

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun