It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIANThough ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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