Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

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.]

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

For as our modern wits behold,
Mounted a pick-back on the old,
Much farther off, much further read more

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.

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.