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

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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching

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

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