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The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent. Intuition of the truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
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The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
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