 | Jonathan Swift - 1899 - 340 стор.
...with books of amusement in your own language. It is an uncontrolled truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. I am &c. JON. SWIFT. There is a difficulty about the date of these two letters which I cannot clear... | |
 | 1902 - 510 стор.
...well, without a thought of fame. — Longfellow. It is an uncontroverted truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — Swift. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be... | |
 | Joseph Alfred Conwell - 1903 - 332 стор.
...to murder our talent as it is to bury it. "It is an incontrovertible truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." It is pitiful to see a man in the pulpit who should be digging ditches, but it is a sin for a good... | |
 | 1903 - 172 стор.
...the still greater effort must we make to go farther. — Rt. Rev. JL Spalding. Xo man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. Young men do not fail in pursuits in life because they lack ability to succeed half as often as from... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 362 стор.
...that he was first known as a strong, vigorous writer. It has been well said that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft... | |
 | 1905 - 792 стор.
...Monthly Homoeopathic Review." " IT is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." Ne sutor ultra crepidam. The very amplitude of Dr. Maclachlan's last makes it the greater pity that... | |
 | Nixon Waterman - 1906 - 170 стор.
...takes the whole of life within its loving scope. It :: an uncontroverted truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — SWIFT. The great successes of the world have been affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 стор.
...Other men's sins are before onr eyes ; our own are behind onr back.— Seneca. No man ever made an + — Swift. Learn God, and thou shalt know thyself. — Tapper. The most difficult thing in life is... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 стор.
...Other men's sins are before our eyes ; our own are behind our back. — Seneca. No man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one, who mistook them,— thoift. Learn God, and thou shalt know thyself. —Tupper. The most difficult thing in life is to know... | |
 | James Wells - 1908 - 522 стор.
...— ' sEquanimitas,' by William Osier, MD ' It is an incontrovertible truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.' — Deal Swift. ' Give me patience to labour at details as much as if they were the highest work. God... | |
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It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. 
