It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIANHe who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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