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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
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
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 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.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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