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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there read more
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
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.
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.]
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.
They are able because they think they are able.
[Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]
They are able because they think they are able.
[Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]
I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education read more
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.]
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none read more
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is read more
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
