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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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