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«Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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Ability
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abilities, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cultivation, make up, natural, natural ability
«They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.»
«The best work never was and never will be done for money.»
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«An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.»
«What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?»
«Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.»
«Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.»
«Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.»
«Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.»
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