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  • "The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "Some persons of weak understanding are so sensible of that weakness, as to be able to make a good use of it."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men: luck that of the people."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
    By: Helen Adams Keller
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  • "No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing."
    By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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  • "Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability."
    By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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  • "A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]"
    By: George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
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  • "A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two."
    By: George Herbert
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  • "We are often able because we think we are able."
    By: Joel Hawes
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  • "Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest."
    By: Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge), Country Living and Country Thinking--Men and Women
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  • "The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show."
    By: James Abram Garfield
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  • "It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown."
    By: Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault)
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  • "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right."
    By: Henry Ford
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  • "The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability."
    By: William Feather
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  • "He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • "I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it."
    By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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