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"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent."
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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
Courage
"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
People
"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."
Will
"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
Love
"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine."
Man
"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
Income
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
Vanity
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
Advice
"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
Income
"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God."
God
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