Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
should never exceed ability. Cic.
Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice. 5 A princely mind will undo a private family. Fuller.
Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. Sir W. Davenant.
Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen—Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. Goethe.
Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set. Emerson.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. Lavater.
Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes 10 them. Joubert.
Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything. Emerson.
Genius borrows nobly. Emerson.
Genius can never despise labour. Abel Stevens.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. Ouida.
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere 15 of freedom. J. S. Mill.
Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Emerson.
Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. Stedman.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Owen Meredith.
Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life. Willmott.
Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the 20 greatest harm. Emerson.
Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. Schiller.
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. Willmott.
Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem. Holmes.
Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws. Carlyle.
Genius in poverty is never feared, because 25 Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. B. R. Haydon.
Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode. Emerson.
Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love. Emerson.
Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. Holmes.
Genius is always consistent when most audacious. Stedman.
Genius is always impatient of its harness; its 30 wild blood makes it hard to train. Holmes.
Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. Abel Stevens.
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. Emerson.
Genius is a nervous disease. De Tours.
Genius is ever a secret to itself. Carlyle.
Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself. 35 Schiller.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. I. M. Wise.
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. H. W. Mabie.
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. T. W. Higginson.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy. Matthew Arnold.
Genius is not a single power, but a combination 40 of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. Whipple.
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. Buffon.
Genius is nothing but labour and diligence. Hogarth.
Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. Haydon.
Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. Fichte.
Genius is nourished from within and without. 45 Willmott.
Genius is only as rich as it is generous. Thoreau.
Genius is religious. Emerson.
Genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.
Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. Goethe.
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the 50 miner who works and brings it out. Lady Blessington.
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Coleridge.
Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all. Carlyle.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. Simms.
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. Schopenhauer.
Genius loci—The presiding genius of the place.
Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length. Bovee.
Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. Longinus.
Genius melts many ages into one. … A work 5 of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. Hawthorne.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. Dryden.
Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune, and especially a large one. La Bruyère.
Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. Froude.
Genius