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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.

God never made His work for man to mend.

With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.

Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.

Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please.

Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.

Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.

Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.

We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.

And all at Worcester but the honour lost.

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.

Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.

And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.