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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Talent
Desiderius Erasmus

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Talent
Desiderius Erasmus

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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
Genius
Benjamin Franklin

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Talents go by nature not by birth.
Talent
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
Talent
French Proverb

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Poverty and The Poor
John W. Gardner

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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Happiness
John W. Gardner

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Talent
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Talent
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Ability
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Books - Classics
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Talent
Robert Half

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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Luck
Paul Hawken

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Genius
Francis Herbert Hedge

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
Happiness
Hermann Hesse

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Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Events
Edward Hoagland

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Opportunity
Eric Hoffer

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.
Youth
Eric Hoffer

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Genius
Josiah Gilbert Holland

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Talent
Aldous Huxley

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Brevity
Thomas Jefferson

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Aristocracy
Thomas Jefferson

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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Franklin P. Jones

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun