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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle

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