He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
QUINTILIANThat which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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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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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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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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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 liar should have a good memory.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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