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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian GENIUS.	Joseph Addison
In men of the highest character and noblest GENIUS there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.	Cicero
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. GENIUS will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The p	Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the GENIUS of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One of the strongest characteristics of GENIUS is the power of lighting its own fire.	John Waston Foster
Shakespeare is a savage with sparks of GENIUS, which shine in a dreadful darkness of night. Voltaire He was not of an age but for all time.	Ben Johnson
The first and last thing required of GENIUS is the love of truth.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest GENIUS is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.	Charles Caleb Cotton
The principal mark of GENIUS is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.	Arthur Koestler
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except GENIUS.	Oscar Wilde
The secret of GENIUS is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.	Aldous Huxley
The seeds of punning are in the minds of all men, and though they may be subdued by reason, reflection and good sense, they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest GENIUS.	Joseph Addison
There is no great GENIUS without a mixture of madness.	Aristotle
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim, requires a GENIUS.	W.R. Alger
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has GENIUS, power, and magic in it.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe