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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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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
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise

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