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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little c

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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Sydney Smith
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Humankind
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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Confidence

We learn to wield our own strengths, and fear flips over — dead! – Terri Guillemets, “Getting along, stopping not,” 2007

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Confidence

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

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Confidence

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. – John Powell

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Confidence

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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Beauty

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you dont collect all these tiny successes, the big ones dont really mean anything. – Norman Lear

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Happiness

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. – C.G. Jung

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Psychology

To praise is an investment in happiness. – George M. Adams

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Praise