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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
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
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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