...had little faith in original genius. Addressing Royal Academy students, he said * : You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents,...have but moderate abilities, industry will supply the deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is to be obtained without it. ......

...great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply the deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is to be obtained without it. ... I will venture to assert that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition eagerly directed...

...I am a fool, I know it; and yet, God help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit." CONGREVE. " If you have talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies." — SAMUEL SMILES. " Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy,...

...common excuses, but wonders will be achieved by the lowest ability if assisted by unremitted diligence. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is to be obtained .without it. There must be an assiduous, ardent devotedness, with a firmness of purpose, absorbing the whole mind...

...degradazio nel lavoro manuale più duro o più servile e umile, quando è onest RUSKIN, Modera Paittters, V. but moderate abilities, industry will supply their...well-directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it. 3809. Wer sich von seiner Hànde Arbeit nàhrt, der glaubt kaum, dass Geistesarbeit den gleichen Schweiss...

...Gothic diapers, on dead, fossilised patterns, who can wonder if little vitality is found in their work ? Nothing is denied to well-directed labour ; nothing is to be obtained without it, yet industry alone can only produce mediocrity, and mediocrity in art is not worth the trouble of industry....

...touched the earth, so also our strength must come from the fullest use of all the land. Keeping at It If you have great talents industry will improve them;...but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS Thomas Jefferson 's LAND PRACTICES By HELEN L. EDDY. As a part...

...vain, the ignorant, and the idle. I am not afraid that I shall repeat it too often. You most have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents,...moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency (second discourse)."—1Ыл., р. 327. Bead especially his sixth discourse. В. B. Boston. SAMBDEN'S...

...of Sir Joshua which were in Carlyle's mind were probably the following from his Second Discourse: " Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing...metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, 1 will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition eagerly directed...

...only in study and labor. " Excellence," he said, "is never granted to men but as the reward of labor. If you have great talents, industry will improve them...their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor ; nothing is to be obtained without it." VERSE MAKING. •-, I - • , - f . * •* . * ' I BY...