We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
John DonneBatter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
John DonneGod affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
John Donne