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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

- Anne Bronte

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

- Anton Chekhov

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

- Willa Cather

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

- Aldous Huxley

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

- Hector Berlioz

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius, which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

- Charles Horton Cooley

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

- Carl Jung

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

- Erica Jong

The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

- S. C. Tallentyre

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

- Erasmus

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes