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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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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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Accompany Average Impression Support
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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