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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
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
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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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Accompany Average Impression Support
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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