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He will find a way.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice, As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratched.

For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. Gail Hamilton ,

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

To the very last, he had a kind of idea, that, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talents the tools to him that can handle them.

A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, I do not believe you can do as much. True, said he. but every goose can.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain, a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.