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Arthur Schopenhauer1 quote
The man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1819Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made: “What’s a Sun-Dial in the Shade?” — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Charles Churchill1 quote
Genius is of no country. — Charles Churchill · 1761Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1 quote
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1790Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Blessed are those who have no talent! — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1850Sextus Propertius1 quote
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BCThomas Jefferson1 quote
I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson · 1813Thomas Wolfe1 quote
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. — Thomas Wolfe · 1938