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“The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.”

Mind Has Beens Reason Seems Earth Evil Talent Eternal Mass Instruments Excited Impression Revelations Disgusting Vicious Abhorrence

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!”

Men World Firsts Beautiful Stars Moral Destiny Talent Morality Eternal Intellect Planes Visible Gleam

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.”

Wells Made Found Left Virtue Talent Masters Eternal Rounds Void Pauses Employed

Book:The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life

Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life

“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.”

Heaven Democracy Talent Goodness Degrees Eternal Scales Distinction Graduates Almighty Everlasting Nobility Patents True Democracy

Author:Catharine Sedgwick