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• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

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  Men, Quality, Faults

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• A poet is a painter of the soul.

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  Poetry, Soul, Poet

  An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character, 1795.

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• Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Writing, Hands, Deception

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• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

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  Judging, Style, Great Work

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 758-59, Literary Miscellanies, Style, 1922.

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

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  Life, Motivational, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

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  Art, Practice, Delicacy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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• The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

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  Men, Genius, Care

  "Literary Character of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XVI, 1795-1822.

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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 of imagination.

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  Men, Thinking, Two

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter II, 1795-1822.

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• The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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  Contemplative Life, Contemplation, Contemplative

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• A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

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  Reading, Great Work, States

  "The literary character". Book by Isaac D'Israeli (Chapter XII, last lines), 1795.

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• Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

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  Nurse, Solitude, Genius

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• Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

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  Friendship, Feelings, Manners

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• Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

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  Education, Age, Genius

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• If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

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  Real, Men, Golden

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

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  Philosophical, Imagination, Age

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

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  Study, Influence, Glory

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, en.wikiquote.org. 1795 - 1822.

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• A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

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  Design, Execution, Should

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

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  Art, World, Taste

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 605-09, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Vers de Société, 1922.

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