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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

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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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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
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
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
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

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