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"Worship is transcendent wonder."

Wonder, Worship

"Work alone is noble."

Work,

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

Power, Time, Strength, Cheerfulness

"Wonder is the basis of worship."

Wonder, Worship

"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."

Experience, Obedience

"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."

Perception, Eyes

"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."

Life, Behavior

"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."

Thought, Man

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

Books, University

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

Vision, Eyes

Exlpore more Genius quotes

"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Genius,

"Genius is sorrow's child."

John Adams, American President

Genius, Sorrow

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Genius, Books, Mankind, Posterity

"The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later."

Louis Aragon, French Poet

Genius, Ideas, Years

"A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull."

Louis Auchincloss, American Novelist

Genius, Danger, Literary, Will

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Genius, Nation, Spirit, Wit

"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."

J. G. Ballard, British Author

Genius, Fool

"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Genius, Action, Man, Mind

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Genius, Childhood, Will

"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

Pierre Beaumarchais, French Inventor

Genius, Trouble