"Such do not always understand the authors whose……" — Isaac D'Israeli
"Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head."
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Isaac D'Israeli
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53 Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book,…
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Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares,…
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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…
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Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.
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There is a society in the deepest solitude.
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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
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If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have…
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