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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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