 | American literature - 1864 - 1120 pages
...next month.) • — "1т is an nncontroverted truth," says Dean Swift, "that no man ever made an ¡11 figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. THE FAMILY DRAWING MASTER.' 1.4 A SERIES OF FAMILIAR CONVERSATIONS. LINES. ( Continued. ) P. Do yon... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 340 pages
...acquaintance ; or, at best, 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 350 pages
...acquaintance ; or, at best, 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... | |
 | Pacific States - 1902 - 510 pages
...doing what you can do 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 - Men - 1903 - 332 pages
...holes." It is as great a sin 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... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Conduct of life - 1894 - 362 pages
...to refute its arguments 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... | |
 | Character - 1903 - 172 pages
...that as we advance, 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1905 - 792 pages
...Dec. tih. THE SUBJUNCTIVE IN HOMOEOPATHY. To the Editors of tlic " Monthly Homoeopathic Review." " IT is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no...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 - Boys - 1906 - 170 pages
...of hope, A view that 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... | |
 | James Wells - Missionaries - 1908 - 522 pages
...than the word of speech.' — ' 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. 
