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Benjamin Robert Haydon: Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater…

Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

In today’s wordsGenius is nothing more than our ordinary abilities sharpened to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things; all astonishing things are done with ordinary materials.

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From the book Table Talk, as quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (compiled by Anna L. Ward, 1889)

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