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The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular [[underline]] direction. [[/underline]] --Johnson he would make his fate his choice, were [[underline]] he free to [[/underline]] choose.-- I looked round the World as on a vast desert, --I considered myself as a blasted Tree whose branches could afford no shade to others & bear no blossoms to myself, memory was my [[underline]] tormentor [[/underline]] A Veteran in the school of adversity, I have suffered deeply, --yet I view not man with an angry Eye--pity for their misfortunes is my 1st Sensation, --contempt for the Errors which generate them in my 2d.--
