- Nov 07, 2020
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- Born
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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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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.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
- Devoid
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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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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