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

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

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

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