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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the read more
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
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you read more
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to read more
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
[Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver read more
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.]
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
[Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
[Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie
abgeglattet sind.]
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two.
[A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther read more
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two.
[A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance
of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no read more
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.]