 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 Seiten
...ignorant, and the idle. I am not afraid that I shall repeat it too often. You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry...will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labor : nothing is to be obtained without it. Not to enter into metaphysical discussions... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...survive. — Chesterfidd. INDUSTRY. — If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their > deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor : nothing is ever to be attained without it. — Sir J. Reynolds. INDUSTRY. — He that hath... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1854 - 150 Seiten
...and good Franklin tells us, in his quaint, pithy way, that " diligence is the mother of good luck." If you have great talents, industry will improve them...have but moderate abilities, industry will supply the deficiency. After the expiration of six years' residence at Portsmouth, he received an invitation... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 Seiten
...idle. I am not afraid that 1 shall repeat it too often. You 7iuist have HO drpcnrlmcc on your turn genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them : if you have hut moderate abilities, industry will supply their dr-lii.-ii-ncy. Nothing is denied to well-directed... | |
 | 1855 - 1016 Seiten
...ignorant, and the idle. I am not afraid that I shall repeat it too often. You roust have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry...will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it." We have not forgotten the work of Bishop... | |
 | 1858 - 434 Seiten
...afraid that I shall repeat it to often. You most have no dependence on your own genius. If you have no great talents, industry will improve them ; if you...will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labor ; nothing is to be obtained without it. THE FUTURE. "Wo would have you look well... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 Seiten
...study and labour. " Excellence," he said, " is never granted to man but as the reward of labour." " If you have great talents, industry will improve them;...well-directed labour ; nothing is to be obtained without it." Sir Fowell Buxton, who laboured in a very different field, was an equal believer in the power of study... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 Seiten
...ignorant, and the idle. I am not afraid that I shall repeat it too often. You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry...will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labor : nothing is to be obtained without it. Not to enter into metaphysical discussions... | |
 | Public speaker - 1860 - 146 Seiten
...improvement more numerous, persevering industry more greatly encouraged, and success more liberally rewarded. "If you have great talents, industry will improve...but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies," says Sir J. Reynolds. Make up your minds, then, ye young men, that you will no longer... | |
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You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without... 
