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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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