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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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 liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
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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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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