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“Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.”

Energy Given Ability Talent Emotional Commitment Blessed Intellect Faithful Boundless Being Faithful Physical Beauty Emotional Strength

Book:Weatherproof Your Heart

Source: Weatherproof Your Heart

“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

“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.”

Earth Given Talent Intellect Buried Napkins

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.”

“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.”

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

Certain Education Talent Genius Curiosity Intellect Curious Permanent Characteristics Vigorous Lexicographer

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.”

People Ifs Should May Children Helping Compassion Seeing Talent Strive Gender Intellect Attraction Setting Settings Athletics Child Of God

Author:Lance B. Wickman