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Isaac D'Israeli was a British writer and critic renowned for his scholarly works and literary criticism. A prominent figure in the literary world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, his contributions have left a lasting impact on English literature. Born on May 11, 1766, D'Israeli's career spanned several decades, during which he authored numerous books and essays on a variety of subjects.

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“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

Men Mind May Art Eye Form Hours Walks Wise Meditation Genius Solitude Tables Calm Crowds Folly Distraction Artificial Retired Assembly

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“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.”

Art Whole Easy Pleasure Impossible Style Genius Speech Composition Disguise Utility Recognise Ingenious Plagiarism Orators

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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.”

Age Left Imagination Teach Records Theory Genius Philosophical Invention Peculiar Construction Venture Passed Away

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

Ends Age Sides Education Produce Genius Indispensable

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“Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.”

Humans Self Whole Action Human Beings Love Is Class Principles Self Love Genius Sensitive

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

Life Motivational Spirit Secret Genius Productions Enthusiasm Harmonious Enthusiasm For Life Enthusiasm Passion

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“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”

Genius Fortune Companion

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“Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.”

Book States Spirit Secret Design Reader Genius Ideals Productions Enthusiasm Throwing Great Work Statues Spectators Harmonious Musings

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“Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.”

Philosophy Science Poetry Imagination Genius Enthusiasm

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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.”

Men Care Hours He Man Duty Return Genius Habit Creatures Invention Golden Companion Amusement Infirmity Vexation Creatures Of Habit Golden Hour

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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.”

Thinking Men Feels Two Imagination He Man Genius Reasoning Division

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“Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.”

Feelings Events Genius

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“Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.”

Genius Solitude Enthusiasm Nurse

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“Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.”

Men Particular Genius Arise

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About the Author

Born: May 11, 1766
Died: January 19, 1848
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 68

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