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Sentences starting with talent

Talent is a very common family-trait; genius belongs rather to individuals;--just as you find one giant or one dwarf in a family, but rarely a whole brood of either. [6]
Talent is often to be envied, and genius very commonly to be pitied. [6]
Talent seems, at first, in one sense, higher than genius,--namely, that it is more uniformly and absolutely submitted to the will, and therefore more distinctly human in its character. [6]
Talent is a docile creature. [6]

Sentences ending with talent

With quite one third more people than we had then, we have only half the sort of offices which are sought by men of the speaking sort of talent. [7]
In most other things he's a barber-shop philosopher, but in science he has got a flare, a real talent. [11]
Louis Bachelor took the sketch, and, walking to the window for better light, said: "Believe me, I have a profound respect for the artistic talent. [11]
He enjoys all that praise can do for him and at the very moment of exerting his talent. [6]
He had infinite sport with his talent. [5]
More and more she saw him selfish and mean, weak-willed, narrow-minded, and hard-hearted; and aimless, with all his talent. [8]
I think our people will never allow genius, without it is alloyed by talent. [6]
The ministers come next in point of talent. [6]
You know how much I admire your talent. [8]
Society has subdivided itself enough to have a place for every form of talent. [6]

Short sentences using talent

A talent of gold! [10]
Half a talent! [10]

Sentences containing talent two or more times

Philip was impressed with the ready talent, the adaptable talent, and the facility of this accomplished journalist, and as their acquaintance improved he was let into many of the secrets of success in the profession. [4]
What made a person desired in any company was the talent of being agreeable, talent of some sort, not the ability to give a costly dinner or a big ball. [4]
He had talent enough, and his sort of talent would reach round the whole situation, but, as Fulkerson said, he was as many kinds of an ass as he was kinds of an artist. [8]
I could mention dozens who had and have more natural talent for the law than I, more talent for politics than I. [9]

More example sentences with the word talent in them

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close and rendering it portable. [5]
She has a woman's heart; and what talent of mine is to be named by the love a true woman can offer in exchange for these divided and cold affections? [6]
They are not without talent, and he ever and anon relieves his prose jog-trot by breaking into a canter of poetry. [6]
I am not without talent for drawing, and even at that time it was an easy matter to reproduce anything which had caught my eye, not only distinctly, but sometimes attractively and with a certain degree of fidelity to nature. [10]
Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
They were mixed with the solid achievement of talent and force in the business of life. [11]
This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
Of a youth whose mind, like mine at that period, possessed some general capability, without perhaps a single prominent and marked talent, a proneness to imitation is sure to be the besetting sin. [6]
Apollodorus forced a whole talent of the yellow curse upon me for painting his men's room. [10]
Leicester's undoubted gifts were well and cautiously directed, and his talent of assumed passion--his heart was facile, and his gallantry knew no bounds--was put to dexterous use, convincing for the moment. [11]
It shows what we could do without means, and what people can do with talent and energy when they find it in people like us. [5]
Peter Irving, who was then in Edinburgh, was impressed with the brilliant talent of the editor of the "Review," disguised as it was by affectation, but he said he "would not give the Minstrel for a wilderness of Jeffreys. [4]
Her musical talent was considerable, and she devoted every leisure hour to playing on stringed instruments and singing. [10]
No doubt his want of advancement was partly due to want of influence, which better birth would have given him; but the plain truth is that he had a talent for making himself disagreeable to his associates. [4]
He hadn't so very much talent, but he was handsome and good, and these are a kind of talents themselves and help along. [5]
Mr. Brad was undoubtedly clever, and was down as a bright young man in the list of those who employed talent which was not dulled by conscientious scruples. [4]
The French, in undertaking to reconstruct the Suez canal, have had much to encounter from the unfriendly commercial policy of the English and their influence over the internal affairs of Egypt, but the unwearied energy and great talent of Monsr. [10]
Then, with a troubled face, he said: "You have much talent, but it is--it is too old--much too old--and very sorrowful. [11]
Ruth was glad to hear that Philip had made a push into the world, and she was sure that his talent and courage would make a way for him. [5]
The Greeks seem to have adopted this custom, but with their usual talent for beautifying all they touched, substituted a winged figure of death for the mummy. [10]
Possibly because he thought that he discovered in me a talent for poetic expression, he showed me unusual favor, even read his own verses aloud to me, and set me special tasks in verse-writing, which he criticised with me when I had finished. [10]
In comparison with those days, Phryxus, I may be called a poor man now, but Cambyses does not leave me to famish, and I can still raise a talent for your temple. [10]
Yet they made the paper sell, and if Orion had but realized his brother's talent he might have turned it into capital even then. [5]
This is because the newspaper has become more profitable, and is able to pay for talent, and has attracted to it educated young men. [4]
In our day the mines are worked upon scientific principles, under the guidance of the ablest mining-engineering talent procurable in America. [5]
He had inherited the family talent for the law, the freedom to practise when and where he chose. [9]
Perhaps this is the best reward authorship brings; it may not imply much talent or literary excellence, but it means that your way of thinking and feeling is just what some one of your fellow-creatures needed. [6]
I thought so,--and the best legal talent they can hire. [9]
There was much that was good to be said about him: for the best masters rated his talent highly in spite of his youth; his comrades were faithful; and none knew so well as he how to cheer his father's dark moods. [10]
It is certain, that freedom from household routine, variety of character and talent, variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency; broke up routine. [6]
It is a temptation to a temperate man to become a sot, to hear what talent, what versatility, what genius, is almost always attributed to a moderately bright man who is habitually drunk. [4]
That required little talent, but a good deal of the humbler sort of virtue. [6]
She has great talent, and will make a big match. [5]
She realized his talent, and it almost made her forget his cunning and his loathsomeness. [11]
Young Krebs has talent, and if only he had devoted himself to the honest practice of law, instead of stirring up dissatisfaction among these people, he would be a successful man to-day. [9]
Among men of talent there are plebeians as well as patricians; even genius, which is never vulgar, is sometimes unable to hide the vulgarity of the aims and ideas which it clothes with beauty without concealing their essential nature. [4]
She admired his talent in proportion as she learned more of artists, and perceived how uncommon it was; but she said to herself that if she were going to devote herself to art, she would do it at first-hand. [8]
Whatever purely literary talent existed was as yet in the nebular condition, a diffused luminous spot here and there, waiting to form centres of condensation. [6]
Whether the average talent be high or low, the Colleges of the land must make the best commodity they can out of such material as the country and the cities furnish them. [3]
This latter very soon became jealous of the great talent exhibited by my father and a competition occurring, exerted all his influence to keep the prizes from the German competitors and have them awarded to Italian artists of much less merit. [10]
Grits Jarvis, his son, who had inherited the talent, was also contraband. [9]
Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. [5]
He had no shame, no scruple in this, for he had been a pensioner upon others ever since a Syracusan amateur of the arts had detected his talent and given him the money to go and study abroad. [8]
We prowled on several hours, sometimes by the seaside, sometimes inland, and finally managed to get lost, which is a feat that requires talent in Bermuda. [5]
He had no sense of responsibility; his mind loved talent, skill, and cleverness, and though it was scathing of all usual ethics, for the crude, honest life of the poor it had sympathy. [11]
Speakers, leaders in science, clergymen better than famous, and famous too, poets by the half-dozen, singers with voices like angels, financiers, wits, three of the best laughers in the Commonwealth, engineers, agriculturists,--all forms of talent and knowledge he pretended were represented in that meeting. [6]
Thackeray used to say that all his talent was in his eyes; meaning that he was only an observer and reporter of what he saw, and not a Providence to rectify human affairs. [4]
An unlooked-for diversion saved us from annihilation, in the shape of one who had a talent for creating them. [9]
But he said sadly to himself, that his life had been a failure,--that he had nothing to show for it, and his one talent was ready in its napkin to give back to his Lord. [6]
They say he 's the rising talent in his line, architecture mainly, but has done some remarkable things in the way of sculpture. [6]
This does not require any talent, because they only have to grab--if they do not get the one they are after, they get another. [5]
She is always ready to welcome the first sign of genius, or of talent which approaches genius. [6]
She has a purpose--a deep and dark and artful purpose--in what she is saying in the first paragraph, and you guess what it is, but that is due to your own talent, not hers; she has made it as obscure as language could do it. [5]
After she had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the other young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for their musical talent, to sing something. [2]
She has a perfectly astonishing talent for putting words together in such a way as to make successful inquiry into their intention impossible. [5]
I have convinced Orion that he hasn't business talent enough to carry on a peanut stand, and he has solemnly promised me that he will meddle no more with mining, or other matters not connected with the Secretary's office. [5]
The fear is only mitigated by the observation that the reputation of a person for great talent sometimes ceases with his reformation. [4]
This is the only country in the world where youth, talent, and energy can reach such heights. [5]
He was not only a classical scholar, with the limitations of those days; but, what was then rare, he made scientific attainments which greatly impressed those capable of judging, and he had a taste for art and a remarkable talent as an artist. [4]
Euphorion, the old one, is to have his pay continued to him, and half a talent is to be paid to him at the prefect's office. [10]
Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principle. [6]
There are scores of them, good men in their character for intelligence and talent and integrity. [7]
A just balance of the mental powers is a great deal more likely to be useful than any single talent, even were it the power of observation; in excess. [3]
The mere mummifying of the body with the finest oils and essences, cloths, amulets, and cases, would cost a talent of silver, without the stone sarcophagus. [10]
There is lots of that talent all over the country, but the trouble is they don't develop it. [5]
A young man of Dr. Jackson's talent and energy could hardly take the position that belonged to him without crowding somebody in a profession where three in a bed is the common rule of the household. [3]
That readiness will not weaken in me, but I and Russia have a right to expect from you all the zeal, firmness, and success which your intellect, military talent, and the courage of the troops you command justify us in expecting. [2]
The cubes will not roll at all; they have a great talent for standing still, and always keep right side up. [6]
But he was not given to personalities, and among the men of genius and of talent whom he met there no one was quieter, but none saw and heard and remembered more. [6]
The baker was not a great musician, but he had a talent, a rare gift of pathos, and an imagination untrammelled by rigorous rules of harmony and construction. [11]
Though he himself never wrote verses, he had some qualities which his friend the poet may have undervalued in comparison with the talent of modelling the symmetries of verse and adjusting the correspondences of rhyme. [6]
But Cyprian had never shown the talent or the inclination for writing in verse. [6]
It will be my policy to employ home talent Avalon County lawyers, for instance. [9]
Don't make too much of his talent, and particularly don't let him think that because he can write verses he has nothing else to do in this world. [6]
There is as much literary talent in the South, now, as ever there was, of course; but its work can gain but slight currency under present conditions; the authors write for the past, not the present; they use obsolete forms, and a dead language. [5]
He found that Mr. Burnett stood well in the most prominent law firm in the city, that ladies of social position recognized his talent, that he dined here and there in a good set, and that he belonged to one of the best clubs. [4]
The great pageant moved on, and still on, under one triumphal arch after another, and past a bewildering succession of spectacular and symbolical tableaux, each of which typified and exalted some virtue, or talent, or merit, of the little King's. [5]
Many of them may very probably have been persons of more than common talent, of active and ingenious minds, of versatile powers and various acquirements. [6]
He knew a man of this stamp in the student F. A. Wolfs, whose talent for teaching had been admirably proved in the Bendemann family. [10]
Tennyson is a man of talent, who happened to strike a lucky vein, which he has worked with cleverness. [4]
Now if a man can only be allowed to stand on a dais, or raised platform, and look down on his neighbor who is exerting his talent for him, oh, it is all right!--first-rate performance!--and all the rest of the fine phrases. [6]
So may the little talent or opportunity make possible the genius of the great. [11]
And besides the leonine courage and talent for command which he had displayed, his noble nature was praised with ardent enthusiasm. [10]
Some day the laurel which had so long adorned the brow of Myrtilus must also grow green for him and the great talent whose possession he felt. [10]
No, gentlemen, bulk is what we desire--substance, weight, bulk--these are the supreme requisites now--not talent, not genius, not education. [5]
I think there is more real: talent among our public men of to-day than there was among those of old times--a far more fertile fancy, a much happier ingenuity. [5]
His sole capital is his talent. [4]
The demand for intellectual labor is so enormous and the market so far from nice, that young talent is apt to fare like unripe gooseberries,--get plucked to make a fool of. [6]
Life was there in its essence; beauty, talent, the genius of the dreamer, like his own. [11]
This looks as if Mrs. Eddy had devoted a large share of her time and talent to inventing ways to get rid of her Church members. [5]
And Mr. Spence, if he attempted at all to account for the swiftness with which the hours of that long afternoon slipped away, may have attributed their flight to the discovery in himself of hitherto latent talent for instruction. [9]
There is also, I think, a graphic rendering of situations, and a lively talent for describing whatever is visible and tangible--what the eye meets on the surface of things. [14]
On one side, I resent being made a fool and tool of; on the other, I am lost in admiration of your talent. [11]
Egad, Mr. Carvel, I had put you down for one who might say, with Alceste: 'Etre franc et sincere est mon plus grand talent. [9]
But Philip is honest, and he has talent enough, if he will stop scribbling, to make his way. [5]
In great emergencies his talent saves the ship. [5]
Madame Chalice was his friendly inquisitor, not his enemy; she endured him for some talent he had shown, for the apparent sincerity of his love for the cause; but that was all. [11]
By-and-by they associated his eye-glass with his talent, so that it seemed, as it were, to be the cause of it. [11]
It requires the highest talent possible and the rarest gifts. [5]
What a general her husband would have made; and how his talking talent would shine in Congress! [4]

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