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• If you have great talents, industry will improve them
  if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. -- Joshua Reynold...
• It is but poor eloquence, which only shows that the orator can talk. -- Sir Joshua Reynold
• The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. -- Joshua Reynold
• Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory
  othing can come of nothing. -- Joshua Reynold...
• Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor.
  It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the hands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation....
• Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
  -- Joshua Reynold...
• The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
  -- Joshua Reynold...
• Never give a power-of-attorney. -- Debbie Reynold