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“What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.”

Mind Use Wisdom Dies Ability Talent Native

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.”

Men World Needs Doe Real Dies Heaven Talent Real Talent

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.”

Book Dies Dark Talent Forgotten Corners Compare Tempted

Author:Denis Diderot

“If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.”

Ifs Men Soul Age Dies Found Chance Poverty Talent Genius Extraordinary Refuse Yield Woe Oblivion Firmness Woe Unto

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.”

Thinking Needs Dies Talent

Book:Petals on the wind

Source: Petals on the wind

“Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.”

Years Wells Young Dies Known Talent Poet Uniforms Well Known Thunderstorm

Author:W. H. Auden

“In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.”

Ifs Art Reality Dies Principles Air Talent Reflection Madness England Absolutes Profession Wit Introducing Rogues Absolute Freedom Pedants

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.”

Men War Dies Talent Trade Vigor

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.”

Ifs Mother Dies Talent Fronts Television Quitting Fats Always Believe Gift From God I Quit Just Live

Author:Johnny Cash

“People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no room for them, and worse than that, there's nowhere they can find exposure. Their own good talent may die of mourning, just for want of having somebody read what they've written. I don't presume to say how we can best provide platforms for new writers to get read. I don't know. But therein lies the major problem.”

People Knows Want May Problem Lying Dies Rooms Written Talent Television Majors Mourning Platforms Exposure Major Problems Qualitative

Author:Rod Serling