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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
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.
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he read more
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.]
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a read more
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
