To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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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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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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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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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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