The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIANFor all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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