Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does. Gael. Pr.
Taking, therefore, my opinion of the English from the virtues and vices practised among the vulgar, they at once present to a stranger all their faults, and keep their virtues up only for the inquiring of a philosopher. Goldsmith.
Tale tuum carmen nobis, divine poeta, / Quale 40 sopor fessis—Thy song is to us, O heavenly bard, as sleep to wearied men. Virg.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Emerson.
Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did. Carlyle.
Talent forms itself in secret; character, in the great current of the world. Goethe.
Talent has almost always this advantage (Vorsprung) over genius—that the former endures, the latter often explodes, or runs to waste (verpufft). Gutzkow.
Talent is a cistern; genius, a fountain. Whipple. 45
Talent is a gift which God has imparted in secret, and which we reveal without knowing it. Montesquieu.
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. F. H. Hedge.