Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
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Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God.. When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
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How, save through obscure Terrors, imagine more implacable still And as a suppliant the god who some day will Receive the gift of your grace! And for whom, Devoured by anguish, do you keep the unknown Splendor and mystery of your being?
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Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
friendship gifts
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
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Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
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Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
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Your anger is a gift.
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
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One sees you sitting in the sun Asleep; With the sweeter gifts you had And didn't keep, One grieves that the altars of Your vice lie deep.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
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