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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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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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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 in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time

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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