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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Camille Paglia
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
moral courageous obligation
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation. Al Sharpton
moral manners pleasure
To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated. Edmond Rostand
morality
Morality is but the vestibule of religion. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
moral compromise
It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises. Edward Kennedy
moral-corruption indifference crime
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. Bess Myerson
moral sock behave
It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself. Charlaine Harris
moral conformity resolve
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God. Charles Hodge
morality credibility knows
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality. Bob Hawke
moral reluctance seems
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. Barbara Tuchman
poetic invisible feels
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Diablo Cody
poetic-license people poetic
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. Christopher Plummer
poetic literal primaries
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. Northrop Frye
poetic-license giving doe
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. Orhan Pamuk
poetic methodology discourse
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Jacques Derrida
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche Gaston Bachelard
poetic-license novelists poetic
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski
poetic-license dying understood
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
poetic verses
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. Howard Nemerov