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Lydia Maria Child on Intelligence

1802–1880 United States

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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Letters from New York (1843)

Genius hath electric power
Which earth can never tame,
Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower,
Its flash is still the same.

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