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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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