Horace Quotes About Talent
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.
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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.
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Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
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