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"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
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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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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
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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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"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
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"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
Life
"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
Action
"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
Virtue
"The bashful are always aggressive at heart."
Heart
"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
Life
"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."
Man
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
Nation
"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
Change
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
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