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Samuel Smiles: If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate…

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.

In today’s wordsIf you have great talents, hard work will improve them; if your abilities are moderate, hard work will make up for what they lack.

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From the book Self-Help. Ch. 10, as quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (compiled by Anna L. Ward, 1889)

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