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Every man has
his own vocation, talent is the call.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
It is a happy
talent to know how to play.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Talent alone
cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a
personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the
doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state
things so, and not otherwise.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Talent for
talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with
joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to
new power as a benefactor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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Talent is
commonly developed at the expense of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Concealed
talent brings no reputation.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
No one
respects a talent that is concealed.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Talents go by
nature not by birth.
-- Frederick II) Frederick
The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia
(1740-1786),
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