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Le Génie, c'est la patience.

Genius is only patience.
BUFFON, as quoted by MADAME DE STAËL in

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A. STEVENS' Study of the Life and Times of Mme. de Staël. Ch. III. P. 61. (Ed. 1881.) Le génie n'est qu'une plus grande aptitude à la patience. As narrated by HERAULT DE SÉCHELLES-Voyage à Montbar. P. 15, when speaking of a talk with BUFFON in 1785. (Not in BUFFON's works.)

Genius means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

CARLYLE-Frederick the Great. Bk. IV. Ch. III. Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. LESLIE STEPHEN. Genius is an intuitive talent for labor. JAN WALÆUS.

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(See also HOPKINS)

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. BENJ. DISRAELI-Contarini Fleming. Pt. IV. Ch. 5.

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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI Curiosities of Literature. Poverty of the Learned.

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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius.

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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imaginaton.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. II.

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Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XII.

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Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XXV.

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But genius must be born, and never can be taught.

DRYDEN-Epistle X. To Congreve. L. 60.

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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

EMERSON-Method of Nature.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

EMERSON-Race.

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Vivitur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to be a wicked player. FARQUHAR-Love and a Bottle. Epilogue written and spoken by JOSEPH HAYNES. The motto "Vivitur ingenio" appears to have been displayed in Drury Lane Theatre. (See also SPENSER)

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He gives twice who gives quickly. Credited to PUBLIUS MIMUS by LANGIUS, in Polyanth. Noviss. P. 382. ERASMUS Adagia. P. 265, (Ed. 1579) quoting SENECA. Compare SENECA-De Beneficiis. II. 1. HOMER-Iliad. XVIII. 98. Title of epigram in a book entitled Joannis Owen, Oxeniensis Angli Epigrammatum. (1632) P. 148. Also in MANIPULUS SACER-Concionum Maralium, Collectus ex Voluminibus R. P. Hieremia Drexelii. (1644) EURIPIDES-Rhes. 333. AUSONIUS-Epigram. 83. 1. (Trans.) ALCIATUS-Emblemata. 162.

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