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

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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 soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try

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