Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes About Talent
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
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Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.
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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
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Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

- Born: May 25, 1803
- Died: January 18, 1873
- Occupation: Novelist
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