Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
