Fountain Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

“Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.”

Edwin Percy Whipple

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

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A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

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A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying…

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A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

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Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume…

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The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is…

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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and…

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Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

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A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries…

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