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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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
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

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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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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