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

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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
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
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
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
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom

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

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