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genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens
genius athens males
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Camille Paglia
genius poetic emily
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
genius said mark
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. William Shakespeare
genius republican throwing
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. Bob Packwood
biographies appetite immense
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Charles Baudelaire
biographies lost lost-faith
I had lost faith in biography. A. N. Wilson
biographies legacy trouble
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. Arthur Wing Pinero
biographies use actors
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt
biographies sides negative
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. Deepak Chopra
biographies bills stories
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. James McBride
biographies contradiction human-life
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
biographies admirable autobiography
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Hilaire Belloc
biographies unloved
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories F. Scott Fitzgerald