William Hazlitt Quotes About Talent
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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