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Natural abilities are like
natural plants, that need
pruning by study.
Francis Bacon (1561- 1620) Essays: Of Studies
I add this also,
that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero ( 106- 43 B.C.) Oratio Pro Licinio Archia
Skill to do comes
of doing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803- 18829 Society and Solitude
A man who qualifies
himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
It is a great ability
to be able to conceal one's ability
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613- 1680) Maxims
Better be proficient
in one art than smattered in a hundred.
Japanese proverb
So long as a man imagines
that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to
do it; and consequently so long is it impossible to him that he
should do it.
Benedict Spinoza (1632- 1677) Ethics
They are able because
they think they are able.
Vergil (70- 19 B.C.) Aeneid
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