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- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
- Conceal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
- Hopes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
- Excuse
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- Nov 07, 2020
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
- Good Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
A liar should have a good memory.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
- Easier
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
- Correcting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
- Inevitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020