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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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 perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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