As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.


The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke (ed. 1852)

Edmund Burke Quotes

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail...

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail...

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail...

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail...