If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only… — Thomas Wolfe

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

1938
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Wolfe, Thomas. The Web and the Rock. Harper & Sons, 1939, ch. 29.