 heart allied to a vivid and powerful imagination that makes your Shakespeare: it is the poet's unceasing toil that “makes” him; his genius appears in his “work.” “What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve,...  The Optimistic Life - Page 108by Orison Swett Marden - 1907 - 257 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1846 - 298 pages
...or counted the vermin on his rags, under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is, not talent, it is purpose; — in...other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour. You, Percival Saint John — you affect to despond, lest you should not have your uses —... | |
 | 1855 - 398 pages
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 | 1885 - 626 pages
...in Geology, supplemented by WmcheU's Geological Excursions, would furnish profitable and interesting work. WHAT men want is not talent, it is purpose;...words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius. KEEP ANALYSIS AND OPERATION... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education - 1858 - 776 pages
...pursuit, great progress may be reasonably and certainly expected in the acquisition of knowledge. " What men want is not talent, it is purpose ; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour." The mind, under such circumstances, sometimes developes itself with remarkable rapidity, and... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1859 - 610 pages
...sufficiently destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may survive."" What men want is not talent—it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour." " He who is indifferent to praise is generally dead to shame." THE ANATOMY OF WORDS. No department... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1871 - 254 pages
...or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want, is not talent, it is purpose ; in other...words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. ... I am no believer in genius, but I believe that labor, judiciously and continuously applied, becomes... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...or counted the vermin on his rags, under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is, not talent, it is purpose ; in other...not the power to achieve, but the will to labor." There is, perhaps, no mistake of the young more common than that of supposing that, in the pursuits... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...or counted the vermin on his rags, under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is, not talent, it is purpose ; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour. There is, perhaps, no mistake of the young more common than that of supposing that, in the... | |
 | 1875 - 444 pages
...himself. Without temperance there is no health; without virtue, no order; without religion, no happiness. What men want is not talent, it is purpose ; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour. — Bulwer. Many of the waves of trouble, like those of the ocean, will, if we await them calmly,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 462 pages
...or counted the vermin on his rags, under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is, not talent, it is purpose ; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour. There is, perhaps, no mistake of the young more common than that of supposing that, in the... | |
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