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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. – Phillips Brooks

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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. – Phillips Brooks

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To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. – Phillips Brooks

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. – Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle

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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, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. – Terry Pratchett

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People dont deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say Im sorry, but Ive got to say hello to you, and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, Not for me, Bub. I dont want anything to do with you. – John Mayer

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Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God. – Glenn Beck

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