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• "Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light."
  By: Zoroaster
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• "Who does the best his circumstance allows, does well, acts nobly, angels cound no more."
  By: Francis Brett Young
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• "Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more."
  By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 90)
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• "Men are often capable of grreater things than they perform.--They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
  By: Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
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• "They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (V, 231)
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• "The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]"
  By: Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues, Reflexions (CIII)
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• "Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Flowers
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• "The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed.--If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."
  By: Sir William Temple
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• "The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman."
  By: Elizabeth Oakes Smith (nee Prince)
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• "Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends; For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace Chalks successors their way, nor called upon For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied To eminent assistants, but spiderlike Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note, The force of his own merit makes his way, A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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• "There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends; For being not propped up by ancestry whose grace Chalks successors their way; nor called upon For high feats done to the crown; neither allied To eminent assistants; but, spider-like, Out of big self-drawing web, he gives us note; The force of his own merit makes his way; A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to a king."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII
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• "The force of his own merit makes his way--a gift that heaven gives for him."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (76)
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• "To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talent--the tools to him that can handle them."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural ability."
  By: Arthur Schopenhauer
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