It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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