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Henri Frédéric Amiel (top)
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel


Cicero (top)
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Cicero


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (top)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Henry Van Dyke (top)
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke


Brendan Francis (top)
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- Brendan Francis


Benjamin Franklin (top)
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin


Baltasar Gracian (top)
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
- Baltasar Gracian
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
- Baltasar Gracian


Erica Jong (top)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (top)
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Sydney Smith (top)
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
- Sydney Smith


Mark Twain (top)
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
- Mark Twain