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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

Quintilian

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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