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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." -
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Abraham Lincoln
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Top 5 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."
Top 5 quotes from Genius
"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
"Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay."
"Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius."
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
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