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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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