"The difference between talent and genius is in……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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