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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

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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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

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