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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American
Poet
Born:
Feb 27
,
1807
Died:
Mar 24
,
1882
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Men
,
Society
,
Earth
,
Only
,
Blazing
,
Meteor
,
Dull
,
Stone
,
Often
,
Descend
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Calvin Coolidge
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Alone
Failure
Persistence
Determination
Genius
World
Will
Men
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Talent
Educated
Proverb
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Aristotle
Great
Genius
Intelligence
Madness
Great Genius
Some
Touch
Without
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
Genius
See
Seed
Things
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
Motivational
Life
Health
Genius
Abundance
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius
Else
See
No-One
Talent
Target
Hit
Hits
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius
Intelligence
Clothes
Sense
Dressed
Common
Working
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
Genius
Madness
Better
Beauty
Boring
Imperfection
Absolutely
Than
Ridiculous
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
Attitude
Age
Genius
Losing
Old
Enthusiasm
Old Age
Secret
Carry
Spirit
Never
Child
The Secret Of
Which
Means
Your
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Genius
Brainy
Must
Talent
Does
Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson
Genius
Fire
Initiative
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