Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIANThe 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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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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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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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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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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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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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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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