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

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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
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 easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing

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

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