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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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