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He'll find a way.
Author: Sir James Matthew Barrie
Source: Sentimental Tommy, corp's belief in Tommy and Tommy's belief in himself
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The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
Author: Bishop George Berkeley
Source: as quoted in Punch, sources also attribute to Sydney Smith
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way,
ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice;
As if Divinity had catch'd
The itch, on purpose to be scratched.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 163)
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For as our modern wits behold,
Mounted a pick-back on the old,
Much farther off, much further he,
Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 971)
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in
the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)
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I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without
natural ability.
[Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem
naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII)
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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's
shoulders to mount on.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Friend (sect. I, essay VIII)
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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 160)
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of
his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is
the largest.
- Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge),
Author: Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge)
Source: Country Living and Country Thinking--Men and Women
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A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two.
[A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
[Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son
habilete.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maximes (245)
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To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely,
of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can
handle them.
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Source: Sir Walter Scott, in the "London and Westminister Review"
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A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a
Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True,"
said he. "but every goose can."
Author: Plutarch
Source: Laconic Apothegms--Remarkable Speeches of Some Obscure Men
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance
of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
[Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque
artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Source: Prooemium (I, 4)
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
[Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie
abgeglattet sind.]
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: Titan (zykel 26)
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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
[Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus
magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistles (76)
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We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square
person has squeezed himself into the round hole.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: Sketches of Moral Philosophy
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Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the
giants themselves.
Author: Didacus Stella
Source: Lucan (vol. II, 10)
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Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: The Flowers
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The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
[Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de
l'habilete dans les bons.]
Author: Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
Source: Reflexions (CIII)
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They are able because they think they are able.
[Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (V, 231)
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Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Author: Homer
Source: None
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The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
Author: Arthur Guiterman
Source: None
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If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
Source: None
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People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Author: Bob Edwards
Source: None
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Author: Casey Stengel
Source: None
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: None
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Author: George Herbert
Source: None
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If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
Author: Glenn Ford
Source: None
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Author: Henry Ford
Source: None
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Author: Karl Marx
Source: None
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When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
Author: Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Source: None
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There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
Author: Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Author: John Henry Newman
Source: None
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
Author: La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Author: William Feather
Source: None
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Author: Lucille Ball
Source: None
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
Author: Ken Carey
Source: None
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
Source: None
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Author: Thomas A. Edison
Source: None
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Source: None
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