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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.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves

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.

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