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.
QUINTILIANStudy depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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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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