Ability
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
-Francis Bacon
I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Skill to do comes of doing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man, who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
-Thomas Jefferson
Better be proficient in one art than a smattered in a hundreds.
-Japanese Proverb
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, co long is he determined not to do it; and consequently so long is it impossible to him that he should do it.
-Benedict Spinoza
Advice
A fool sometimes gives weighty advice.
-Nicolas Boileau
Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
-Robert Burton
A woman's advice is not worth much, but he who doesn't heed it is a fool.
-Pedro Calderon
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
-Cicero
We ask advice, but we mean approbations.
-Charles C. Colton
Advice is offensive; --because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
-Samuel Johnson
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
-English Proverb
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
-Oscar Wilde
