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

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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend

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

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