A Quote by William Hazlitt
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.
I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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