"Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality……" — Hamilton Wright Mabie
"Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary."
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
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19 Quotes by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Hamilton Wright Mabie has 19 quotes on this site.
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when…
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless…
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing…
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's…
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He strains his conversation through a cigar.
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and…
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for…
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company…
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he…
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It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot…
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation…
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her…
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