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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
-Samuel Johnson
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A Man Of Genius Has Been Seldom

Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. the work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. to be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . they look backward and not forward. but genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.
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