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“The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless--is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives.”

Men May Soul Use Lost Talent He Man Tests Property Possession Holes Buried Trust In God Shameful Lost Souls Loveless Napkins Accomplishing Something

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

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

“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.”

Men Suffering Talent Loneliness He Man Desert Midst Abandoned Drag Solitary Marketplace Leper Irreparable

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?”

Source: Essays, First and Second Series

“Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.”

Knows Men Looks Heart May Persons Together Form Rooms Talent Produce He Man Shapes Conversation Election Dresses Meetings Gentleman Sufficient Arrangements Pins Herds Spit American Society

Author:Frances Trollope

“How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.”

Men Energy Sacrifice Talent Emotional He Man Regret Perpetual Dependence I Regret

Author:Sophia Tolstaya

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”

Men Art Two Three Ability Talent He Man Materials Genius Ten Perception Ordinary Capacity Plus Multiple Register Ordinary Man

Author:Ezra Pound

“It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.”

Men Character Universe Talent He Man Genius Individualism

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.”

Men Years Today Cases Talent He Man Fine Genius Ideals Purple Linen

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.”

Men Soul Race Principles Talent Human Nature Color He Man Genius Skins Shining Brilliant Wit Brightness

Book:Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

“The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.”

Men Needs Real Talent He Man Genius Unique Consideration Inventor

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.”

Men Art Law Talent He Man Devotion Transgression

Book:Piano sonata no. 2:

Source: Piano sonata no. 2: